This is an analysis of the poem I Won, You Lost that begins with:
The last of day gathers
in the yellow parlor ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbXXdefXaaghXhgXieaicefaidicaeiXcgcXceh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110 001010 11111 01010 01110 11010 1111 011011 11001 10101 101111 0101001 011010 11111 10010 01111 0111010 0110011 0101010 0111001 10101 111010 100011 0100101 001110 00101 11100 1011101 111011 11010110 1111110 0100010 10101 10001 0100111 101011 1101110 010101 01011 0111001 011011 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1057
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, oy, and, without are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, without are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase oy connects the lines.
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