Analysis of Play of That Only



Play of That Only
Play of divine is creating of rules –
Chips’ understanding is here handicapped:
Masters are fond of perfecting their tools,
Keeping in mystery where they’re kept.

Not blunt instructions they ever prefer
But of approaches caress mild:
This is the way how all who care for
Potence reveal, seeming weakness despite…

Freedom in play – variations in rules
Hidden, combining their natures, within
Range demonstrates, though the players in use
Honey-experience are guarding with sting.

Hives not for those who fill them are built,
Difficult is to imagine the aim:
Just elevated as if through the guilt
Is every fake of a true diadem…

But every crown is a symbol not more,
Playful connection of rules in the world:
Starting or ending in it to adore,
New interchanging unseen with the old.

Diving – like soaring: don’t only mix
Their elementals in action and phrase,
For truly high only those are peaks
That only winds and abysses can praise!..


Scheme XABAB CXCX AXXX DXDX EXEX XFXF
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 1101101011 10101110 1011101011 100100111 1101011001 11010011 110111111 101101001 100101001 1001011001 110101001 10010011011 111111111 1001101001 110011101 1100110110 11001101011 1001011001 1011001101 1101101 101101101 1101001 110110111 11010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 947
Words 163
Sentences 4
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on December 18, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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