This is an analysis of the poem That's Why I Stay Away that begins with:
There is not another excuse you can use...
To allow time to slip away from you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXc XXadeXfa cbgXgXh Xh hhhbdh gghgdhfXXhXhfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,7,2,6,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001111 0011010101 1011111100001 0111101 00101 101010101010 110011000 01110110101 1010011 10100111 111001101001 1101111010 01010101001 1011101111 111 1111101 11011 001011 11101 11101001 1100 111110001 10111000101 10110111110 110110011101 011101101 11110110100 10011111101 111101 11011110111 1101110 0111 1011011101 0111110111 11110110 110010 11 1 11111110 1101111 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, you, i are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of That's Why I Stay Away;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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