This is an analysis of the poem I Use To Play Basketball that begins with:
Do you play basketball?
'I can....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcX cX X db X XdX XXcae XecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,2,1,2,1,3,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 11 10 11111 1 11001001 1 1100110 10010101010 111101010100011011 1100 1111010 101101001 110 01 11 1101101 011101 110 0110011010011 111101011 1110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 61
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of I Use To Play Basketball;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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