This is an analysis of the poem Making The Same Excuses that begins with:
Early in the morning,
And just before the dew and mist hits......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXcXXdcdcccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010 110101111 0100110 101000100 0111010 111111101 11011101010111 11110110110 00101001010 01 0111001001 0101 101001001110 100110110 1111101010110 10110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 566
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
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- summary of Making The Same Excuses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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