This is an analysis of the poem Then You'Re Not In This Game that begins with:
Can you,
Really make......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCDAefcec AXafXfgh ahXgg ABCCDiXijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 101 01 001 0101010 11 101 0110 1010 111 1110101 11 101010100 110111 01110 11101 11110 1111111 111101001 11 111101 111111 01 10111101 11 101 01 001 0101010 1110101 1111 11001 11100101 0110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word can at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Then You'Re Not In This Game;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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