This is an analysis of the poem Before The Game that begins with:
Shut one eye then the other
Peek into every corner of yourself ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb cdca XdX bXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111010 10010010010 11111111 11111101 110101 111 1111 11010 110111 11111111 00100101 11010010 1011111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; no, high, deep are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words see, fall, who are repeated.
The author used the same word shut at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase jump connects the lines.
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- summary of Before The Game;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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