This is an analysis of the poem Lost Respect that begins with:
Games to play.
With more time to waste, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcdcabcda XeXdbeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 01101 0100100 100100 01001 101001 1111101 0101011 0001 110110 001000010 11 10 1110010010 0011011010 1111011001 1101 1110110 0100101000010 0001011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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- summary of Lost Respect;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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