This is an analysis of the poem I Do Not Play To Be Played that begins with:
Freely I'm not one to give love.
With a doing readily expressed to show....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcdefb Aggegedf aggccddXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011011 00101000101 1010100111 0010010 11001011101 11010100 11 11110110101 10011011 11011001001 110001011101 111110010010 111101000111 11011001111 111110111010 0100101101 1110100111 10111011010 11111001011010 1110101 1110101001 0100010011001 1111 110101010111 11110010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, it, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word freely at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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