This is an analysis of the poem Their Way Of Playing that begins with:
The games people create amongst themselves to play,
To solicit with an attraction done......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX bXbccX baXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011001010101 0010010101 011010001101101 01000111000100001 0100111101000 1010001 011101010010 00111011010 10111 1101011010 1111100 010000100101 11010 001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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