This is an analysis of the poem The Gamblers that begins with:
Life's a jail where men have common lot.
Gaunt the one who has, and who has not. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccee aaffffeeddgg ffbbffhhaahX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101111101 101111111 111010111 101110101 111000111 111111111 111011101 011010111 111111101 111010101 101010101 1000101000001 111011101 101011101 100010011101 101111111 101111011 111011101 111010011 111011101 111010101 111011101 111110111 111010101 111011111 101000111 101110101 111110101 011111101 101111101 101011101 1111110101 111111111 101010101 1011011101 11111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, cards, not, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words love's, all, cards are repeated.
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- summary of The Gamblers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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