This is an analysis of the poem Please Excuse Me While I Kick Myself that begins with:
Please excuse me,
While I kick myself......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC deXX ABC fcda eggbcg ABC eXfggga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,4,6,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 11111 001010 101110 111100 11101111 101011 1011 11111 001010 11110001 11101010 001010 011101 1111100 011010 010010 101111000111 1101110100010 111110101 1011 11111 001010 110101100010 10101111 001000111010 0101101 1010101101 010010001 1001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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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