This is an analysis of the poem Waiting, Waiting that begins with:
WAITING, waiting. 'Tis so far
To the day that is to come:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 0011001 1110111 1011101 1011101 1111111 1010111 0011111 101010010 1010001 1110101 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used the same word waiting at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word by at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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