Analysis of Excuses



Excuses, excuses, excuses
Hundreds and hundreds of ways to use it
Excuses, to deny the truth
Behaving, like a stupid goose
Hiding behind some random lies
Out of the window, the friendship flies


Scheme ABCDEE
Poetic Form
Metre 010010010 1001011111 01010101 01010101 10011101 110100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 188
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 156
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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