This is an analysis of the poem No Right To Say What Is Unfair that begins with:

If someone introduces a game to play,
It becomes their game to play....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: AAbXcdXe AAXeXdcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01110100101 0011101 1010010101 1111011001 0010010011010 10101000101001 001000110101 0110001101 01110100101 0011101 101000000110010 10101101001 111010 100100001 00101110010101 010110100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, play, game, it are repeated.

    The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines play is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of No Right To Say What Is Unfair;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar