This is an analysis of the poem Time To Make Excuses that begins with:
There will be times very few will remember,
To admit to themselves to say......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbcaccd efdcf ebeegX afhh ccabefe bbdeiXig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,6,4,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10011010010 00100101 111001001 001010001001 10111001 0101101 11001110010 111101 111101 110011010010 10001 10101001010 101000011111 101001011100001 1111010101 0111111111 00111001111 1111111111111 1110111101 11010101010 1 011011101 11011001 11101 111 11110010 1001110011 1111100 1010111 1 010101110101 1 1101 11111101 011110001001 110 10 1101110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, with, my, i are repeated.
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- summary of Time To Make Excuses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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