This is an analysis of the poem An Excuse I Am Making that begins with:
There are many people who value their bad habits.
I know....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXdbXdXacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110101101110 11 11100 101111001 101010101 01000111 011011101 101111010111 0110 1111110001001 1101 1110 1 0011011110001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 439
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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