This is an analysis of the poem The Oldest Game Played that begins with:
The oldest game played,
Is coming to an end....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABC daed AABC ffcdfXef AABC dXXded AABC bX Xc XXXad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,8,4,6,4,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 010011 111110 110011010100 010100100 11000100 0010000100 10100110011 01011 010011 111110 110011010100 10100100111 1010010 001010 11011 01001000100111 0101101010100 00010101 01001 01011 010011 111110 110011010100 1101111110001 1101011111 110111 010101010 110101010101 011000110 01011 010011 111110 110011010100 111111 01101101 1001111101 101000 1 101100010 101101 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 they is repeated.
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- summary of The Oldest Game Played;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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