This is an analysis of the poem As If There Are Exceptions To Mother Nature's Rules that begins with:

Allowing anxieties,
And embittered feelings......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXcXd aaadXeXeb Xca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100100 101010 01110 11110101 011010 10001 001010100010 10110110101 1011011 10101011100 11011110011 101000101 1101101 10010100110 1110100010011 101001010101000 111001 01010001010101 10111101010 1011010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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.

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  • summary of As If There Are Exceptions To Mother Nature's Rules;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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