This is an analysis of the poem Made To Forget About Making Excuses that begins with:
I was raised by influences to pay attention,
Very early in my life....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXababXccddceeeXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110001010 1010011 11000010010 10011 11110101 1 1001001111 1101 111111 0111101110 110 1001000 1110010110010 110111101 0101110 0011010001 10111 0010101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 545
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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