This is an analysis of the poem What Is 'That' Suppose To Mean that begins with:
What kind of an excuse is this to make,
To anyone......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aba XaXX bcXc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010001 0100 11000110101 11110010010011 1 11 10011 1110 1110101 1101001101 011010110 111 011 1110111100 011010011010 110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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.
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