This is an analysis of the poem The Mind’s Games that begins with:
If a man can say of his life or
any moment of his life, There is...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeffXbXXca dgbeaahcXcah cdXbXgbcdXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001110011 101000110 1010001001 011110010 10101010 100101111 101010101 01101001 11101010 01101101 01011101 01010011001 01000100101 1010111 01100010100 11010101 0101010 1110101 010110101 10010011010 010101010 0110100010 010101 110010011 01010100100 0111011 010110101 01000110 01010110 1001111010 11001110 1011110 1111110 111010011 0100011100 1010101 01000100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 415
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines or is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase beauty connects the lines.
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- summary of The Mind’s Games;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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