This is an analysis of the poem The Game Players Of America that begins with:
The game players of America,
Are first bred in our neighborhoods....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbbb Acdedfe Aggbdbbb AcfXchbfh XbfgfdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,8,9,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011000100 11101101 110100010 1110 1111011100010 011000100 11001111 101011101 10110111 111110101 0010000010 101010111 011000100 11101101 11100111 110010010110111 010001001011 1101101 0010101 0010011 011000100 1010010111010 10111000101 1010 010110010 111101 01011 11111011 1011111101 110 11010 11010101 0100111 101001 10110101010 110010100000011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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