This is an analysis of the poem The God Who Waits that begins with:
The old men in the olden days,
Who thought and worked in simple ways,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb Xbb bbb aaa bXb ccc bbb ccc bbb bbb ddd Xbb aXa ccc eee aaa eee fXfXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100101 11110101 01011101 11010101 11010101 11010111 11110111 11010101 11001101 10110101 11000101 11010011 11001011 01111101 11010101 10110111 10111101 100101101 11011101 11010111 01100101 11111101 01011101 01011101 11110111 11111111 11010101 11010101 11011101 11010111 10110101 11001101 01011101 010111000 11101101 11010101 11011110 110011101 01010101 10110101 110111100 01010001 11111111 11010101 01010101 01011101 11111111 10010111 11010101 11101111 01010001 01000101 10110111 01010101 11111100 11010110 01011111 11010101 01110101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, he, simple, of, their, and, souls are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, they, of, we, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The God Who Waits;
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