This is an analysis of the poem Even On Sundays that begins with:
When people begin using excuses,
To destroy themselves with self abuse......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110010 001010101 1010110100 0011101010 001000110100 11011 110111001 1011110111 1101010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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