This is an analysis of the poem Wishing To Keep The Game Played Fair? that begins with:
Wishing to keep the game played fair?
Switch around the wearing of masks....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111 10101001 10111010 0010010101 110100010 10101101010000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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