This is an analysis of the poem In The Land Of Misunderstandings that begins with:
Who in a population of game players,
Is satisfied with just one sacrifice to commit? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abACBdDbDXX bXdbbXdXeec XdfXaXfb ACBDbDfbdbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,8,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010100110 0101011101001 001010010 111110 1010010 001010010110 1001001001000 1000001 11100101010 10101 01010111000100 11010101 11011 00101101010100 11010 11000100 110110 1110101 01001001001 101 1 1 1 001100 11010100110 01010100 0010100110 11 1101101 011101001 001010010 111110 1010010 1001001001000 11000001 11100101010 10 0010101010001 10100010011 0110001 01110101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word folks is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, long are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase long connects the lines.
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