This is an analysis of the poem Games Of Betrayal that begins with:
Wait.
I just heard what you said....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdac befgXh ibbhfaig XXajj kddekgac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111111 1010001 11011101001 100 11011110001 110 00100100 11 1101101 111010101 001001010110 110110010 1 01110100 000101001 01001 10101001 11011110 0101 11110100111 110111111000 1111101001 11101110110 011011100 1111 10010 11 11010110 11001011 110100110100 1 1001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Games Of Betrayal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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