This is an analysis of the poem To Use The Best Excuse that begins with:
Children are expected to use,
The best excuse......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABB CBDB EFGHhifbeie EFGHgh AABB CBDBXfbXa X eeaXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,11,6,4,9,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001 0101 10111 1111 111001 1010011 0101 01001101 0111010101 0010010001 111111110 001110100 11111101 1111111 010011 010110001 10001001101 111110 01001011001 0111010101 0010010001 111111110 001110100 111001010 01100101 10101001 0101 10111 1111 111001 1010011 0101 01001101 0101110101 0101101 1101010110 111010010 1110000001 10010111111 110111 01001011101 0010010101 001100100010010 1100010 1010110 00110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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