This is an analysis of the poem Aging Excuse Making Children that begins with:
Difficult and with stress it is,
To be an adult....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc ddac ecaa ccea XabXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010100 00110 11010100010 11110011010 100010010100100 11010100 1010010101 11000101001100 0011001110 1101001 1001101011 1010001010100 1011010101 001101011010 11100100 00010011000101010 101000 0111100101101 01010101 1101010101001 0110001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The author used the same words difficult, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Aging Excuse Making Children;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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