This is an analysis of the poem Minds Behind Times And Sealed Exits that begins with:
The only ones played by the game,
They have created......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbc bacXba dX e X Xd XX e X eaXeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,2,1,1,2,2,1,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11010 11101001101 011101001 1010001110110 1001 101001011 110111011010 011110010110 010001 1010111110 010101111001 111110010 11111010110 1110111 1110111110 11101000 010010100110101 1011101111 1100 101001101 1110110101 11 11010110 110 01111001010 1010011101100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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