This is an analysis of the poem Most Of Us Love The Ability To Make Excuses that begins with:
Some folks live,
To be in other people's business....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXb cdaaddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111 000101010 01011 0010111100 110110010110 11111 01100111 1110101010100100 11111 0001011101010 01010101010 11011 10110010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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