This is an analysis of the poem What Excuses Are There Left that begins with:
What excuses are there left,
For any one group to make? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBcADXa ABaeafcgc ABBcADcahg AhfeXXehhhheb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010111 1101101 11010001 0001000101 1101001 110110 110000 001111111 1010111 1101101 11110100101 0010001010 001101110101 011001001 0010011101 01110010 100011101001 1010111 1101101 11010001 00010001011100 1101001 110110 1010100001 010111111 100111011 011011001011 1010111 110110101010001 111101001 00100010101010 11110010101 11110101011 10101001010 1101010110010 10100100111 0101011001001 011110101011 0110100100010 001001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What Excuses Are There Left;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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