This is an analysis of the poem Haunted Without Excuses To Make that begins with:
A trickster calculates,
With thoughtlessness to solicit and trick......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX adcd XaXa Xdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 0100001011 100101111000 0010010110100 0010100011010 01010010010 0111000101001 11 110111 0100100 1110101011000 101000011101010 11011110010 011011101110 0101100101001 00100100100010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; with, their, to are repeated.
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