This is an analysis of the poem What Game Show Is This? that begins with:
Why should I wish to be updated,
To a defective way you approach......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC AAD dXXXeffef ef ABC AAD aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,9,2,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100010 000101101 1111 1110100010 11011 11011101 101011011 010010011 11111 0100 110 1011001 101001111 11101 111 11100 11110100101 111100010 000101101 1111 1110100010 11011 11011101 1101101001 11110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What Game Show Is This?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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