The Games Being Played Today by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Games Being Played Today that begins with:

The games being played today,
Are are old as those used......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcba dcdXbb XX ddc ebX f dfabX eX dX XXXcd XX Xb X X XXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,2,3,3,1,5,2,2,5,2,2,1,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110101 111111 1011010 100110011 0110101 11111011100 1010101 011111010010 011000111001 0011001100010 00100010001 11110 1111 1111111 101111011 100100010011 1111110 01111101010 11111011000 111101011111 11111 11111011 101011110111 111101001 00111011101 11101110011010 11 11100110100 111011111000 111 111101110001 1 101110 1110 1 11111100111 111010111 010111010 11 1000100010101 1 11101010110 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The Games Being Played Today;
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