This is an analysis of the poem Slay The Game that begins with:
Slay the game.
Not the players....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcXABXcd ccEaCaX AECEdEAEBaf ccEfAfAeXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,11,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 1010 001001 100011101 101 1010 10101 10110101 01 10 10 10101 11110001 0010 11010101 10 101 10101 0010 10101 110101 10101 101 10101 1010 101 0100010 10 10 10101 0100010 101 0101110 101 010 011110 01
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
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 Slay The Game;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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