This is an analysis of the poem The Game In Reverse that begins with:

The other day in Ramna park I saw a boy buying a girl.
I‘d really like to buy a boy for five or ten taka, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXbc dXaefX bgXXgbe XfdcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,6,7,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010111011001 111010101111110 01101001111101 0110111101011 001001 1101011010 111100010 1001110111110 10111110110 01111111 11101 101001010 111101111 1010 1011110101 1010010001 1000111011001 011010 110101101 0110100101 11011111110 101110101 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; boy, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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  • summary of The Game In Reverse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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