This is an analysis of the poem Excusing Everything that begins with:
I often wondered what my life would be like,
If I had the luxury of being protected....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcXb acXXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111101 0110100010010 0010001 1001001 100111 10100110101 010110100101 1 01101 01111110001 010100010 1101111 111101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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