This is an analysis of the poem Playing It Safe that begins with:
Play it safe?
On what field of endeavor, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb XccdX aebbbeXcXd ebfcfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,10,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 1110010 1110011 001011101 0010110 01001010 010110101 10100110 1111001 1100110 11 111 11011 0100101010 10 1101111 0101 011110 10101001 001001 1011101100 111010 10101100 011111001 010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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.
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- summary of Playing It Safe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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