This is an analysis of the poem Waiting that begins with:
A YOUNG fair girl among her flowers,
And, as to blossoms born in May,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcbcX dcdcbdbX eeeeacaX ededcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101010 11010101 010111010 11110101 10111011 11111111 0101101011 11011111 01110101 110111111 01011111 00111110 10111101 01010101 11011100 11001111 11111101 11101111 01110101 11110101 11110011 11010101 11111111 10111011 11010101 10110111 11111101 01011101 10111101 011101110 11010101 011111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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.
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