This is an analysis of the poem Only If I Feel Justified that begins with:
I am the exception to my own rules made to apply.
And I may break them with the making of mistakes....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXX XccXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001001111001 111100010001 111010010 110101 110010101 111111011010 1010100101111001 0101111 011111111011010 1111110011101011 110 11010111110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; to, i, you are repeated.
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