This is an analysis of the poem The First Waits that begins with:
A MEDITATION FOR ALL.
SO, Christmas is here again!-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cded afgf Xfgf facX edfd XXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101011 1100101 10111011 1011110111 11101111 0101101 10100101 0111101001 0010101 0101110 00100111 1010100101 1110101 0101110 10101111 111111011011 10111001 0101111 00100101 1111001000 1101010 0101101 111011011 1111101111 1010101 0101101 11011110 10111101011 1111000
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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