This is an analysis of the poem Excuses With Exits that begins with:
If honesty is something you rather not deal with.
And truth frightens you? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010110110 11101 1110101101 01001011110 0101011010 1010100010011110 1101 11001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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