This is an analysis of the poem The Player Piano that begins with:
I ate pancakes one night in a Pancake House
Run by a lady my age. She was gay....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccX defga cddhX XcXfb XXdhc Xddfe gbXag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100111 1101011111 111011101010 111110101010 11010010101010 1111111101 11101010100 11110111010 11011000101 11101101111 10010101110 0100111101 1000110101 1001111101 1011111010 1111011101 110011110110 10101111101 01110011100 1111100101111 111011000101 1010111111 01110111110 11001101111 110101011010 01111111111 111110011001 1111111101 00101010110 11011011101 1010111101 11101111111 0101111101 0101110111 10110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, that, to, my, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 pasadena is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases home, you connect the lines.
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- summary of The Player Piano;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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