This is an analysis of the poem The Underdog that begins with:
A game is played to have someone lose.
What other motivation, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcaccdcceefgbhbfeiicXc X h jXXXX h dfaX jcXgh XchgjX Xe XhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,1,1,5,1,4,5,6,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101111 1101010 1110111 11101011 00111 1010010101010 0011100101001010 10010101 00101 01011101 101010 011011001 1101001110 100001 01010100100 11100101001 010100110110 1010010000110 11111 1010100101 1011101 1011010 00100100 101011000001 1111 1 110110 1111111 10101 111011001 101 1111 11110 110101010 01111 1111 1 0111010 00100101100010 1101111001101 101101010010111 1 10101010 1101 1101110010 1001111 11011100101 1 11110111010 1 0100010011001 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines underdog is repeated).
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