This is an analysis of the poem The Dice Player that begins with:
Who am I to say to you
what I say to you?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbcde bfac gfhcccf fbbiaXjck lgmfdn Decmdbb fc ledfoblge iibiigf dnnibefmibcp AAXciceb cecbcemjfX efqq mgigafnedleirc fcn efoe pebeinofjfide bcq Aai dfcmd llbkfdbhk ccgs saffb msf ggci aefcgflco nsgm eieff icmf rl ock kfnhdX mXbdnejicd lllcbXeflj lsbf fm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,7,9,6,7,2,9,7,12,8,10,4,14,3,4,13,3,3,5,9,4,5,3,4,9,4,5,4,2,3,6,10,10,4,3,2,11,5,4,3,3,2,9,6,3,5,12,7,2,4,2,3,7,2,4,6,2,2,2,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 11101 1110110110 10101 1110110101 10101 110110 011110111 1111 1101 1111001 100110110101 10101010101011 11111 1010010011 101000101 1100 1101000100 11110 10100010010 0101011001 1100101 00101100 110001001001101 1100101 10110010 111101101 0111110101 111111011 1010100101 101101 0100110100110 1111010 110111 1011011 11110 11101111 1011011111110110 1011010 11010010 10101101 01111101 001001100 1111101 0110101010010 1111001100101 101010010010 10100010010 1101010010010 10010001100 1111010001 1110101 010100100100010 101101 1011101001001 111010101 11011011101011 11110010 1010001010100 00111100 1101001 00100101101010 1001 100110110101 111110 111011101 10010010 1110001001 10100010 1110101 11101 101001 111101001 010100101 111010 1001001111 10100100 10111 111010101010 11010110001010001 1111101110 11101101 11111110 1101001 0101101001 11101011 101101011 111011101000 1000010110100 011100011 10111011 11111111 111111 11101011111 111111110 1011011 111001 11101010 11111101 111110101101 110100101 111 110101101 10111111111 11111100 11100101 1010111 1010010 111101101 101101 1101101 11101110010 11110010 101111 10100100100 1101111 10111101011 01010110 1101010100 1010110110101 100110001001 1010110 001001111 101100101 10010010 111001110010010 001010101 000101001011 1110101 11101 111 11110010 101000100101 010001001 101010111111 1011110101 11110010 11001010 01000101101010 101011010 11000010001 1100111101 01110010 1010111 11101001 1111001001 010101 1010001001 101 11111001 00111111001 11101110010 111100110111 1010100010 001111 111101 1011111011 1100001100 10101100 111111101 1111111001 11111 111111111111 11111101 00111111 00101000100 110011010011 110010100111 11111111 1101001 001010110100 0101001 111100111110 010000010001 0101010010 101011 1101011 111111 1101101 011111111 0101001011 01010100010 11110101 1111010001101 111110010010 001 010100101100 10111 11011010111 101011101011 10010011010100010 111 111111010110101 101001111010100 010111010 1110100110100 11010 111010110011 0101001010110 1111001101 010111 110101 11010111101 11110101 111101101 1001 0011111 1110011011 10011100 10010000101 10100001 1100010001010 01110110 11010010 01010010010 101001100101 0000100010 11000010011001 01011010 010011 11111 1110101 11101 1111010 1010111100111 1010011101 011010010 1001100 101101010 011 1011101 1011 1111 00101110 10011110 111111011 1010101 0111011111 11011101 00111 01001100111 01001010010 1010101000101010 110100110 1111011011 010001010010101010 11001110 11110010 111111010 1101 111101010 010010010010 01001001 1110101001110 110001 1100101011 100101101 1010100101001 001111 100110011111 1011 1011 111010110 1101101 00111001 1111001011 001001010011 001001 10101100 101011 111011001001001 11110101 110101 1100101001 1101111101001 0010001100 1110 1100101011 0101 101001000100011 101010111 111 111010010001 1010001 1101110010 01010 111111101001010 1011110100 1101010101 1010111111010010101 10101011 1101101 101111000101 11010010010 01001001 011001011 0011 00100110111 101010101111011 1010100110 011110100 111110111 010001000110 11011001111010 1111111 1101001110 1 11011101 111011010101 001101 11010111 110111110 011101100 1110101 11101 11110111 111101 01111 1100111 111011101010 111101 11111010110 10101010010 1100110 0101111111001010 1100110 1110111010101010 110101010 11111100 1110011101 11100110 1010110001001 111010110011 1100010111 11010100 1110101100 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 62
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 337
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, and, could, have, in, for, feared, my, of, you, what, love, not, call, it, he, him, on, water, two, green, been are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, had, or, i, my, o, call, he, like, who are repeated.
The author used the same words i, had at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, chance, tomorrow, can, green, nothingness are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases god, i, who connect the lines.
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- summary of The Dice Player;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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