This is an analysis of the poem The Name Of A Game that begins with:
There is one thing I have learned,
About crooks and liars......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdX abXXbdXaXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 011110 1100111 111101 110111 10110 111011101 1010111 010101000010111 11111011111100 01110100010111 10111010010001 0000100 0101001101 101000101010 10110101 01000100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of The Name Of A Game;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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