This is an analysis of the poem My Play Is Done that begins with:
Ever rising, ever falling with the waves of time, still rolling on I go
From fleeting scene to scene ephemeral, with life's currents' ebb and flow....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc aa dd dX ee cc ff gg dd Xh cc ff dd ii bX hh ccXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010101000101110111 01010101000110111 1111000101111111 010101010110010101 0101010101011101 11110101011111 11011101111101 010010101111111 011111011111001 00010111101111 11001101101111 11011101111001 01111101010101 01010101010111 11010111010101 011111001011101 100101110011101 11110011101101 111100101110101 11010101110101 101101010010101 01011101101100 11010101111111 0101010100110111 11011101110101 11110111110101 11010111100111 11111110011111 01011101111001 110100101011111 11011111010010 101100100100010 11011101111111 01001101011110 11110011111101 011100110110101 11010111111101 11010101110101 11011001111101 11011101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ever, of, and, as, its, me, hollow, play, to, from, beyond, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of My Play Is Done;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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