This is an analysis of the poem Chunkey that begins with:
A game about which we've got next to nothing straight,
it seems to have been a mash-up of buzkashi and road bowls. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab aaaa cdX cdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 010111110101 010100110100111 1110010101101000101 01101011 001111011011 111000101011100001 1000010100011 10110111010111 1011100111 11010101 101101110101101 1101000101 10110110100101101 011011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word maybe is repeated.
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