This is an analysis of the poem Kept Waiting! that begins with:
White billows and huge waves block the river crossing;
Wherever I go, danger and difficulty; whatever I do, failure....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111101010 0101110110001101110 110110011101101 111100101011111001 0101110001011110 00101111001111001 1110111111111 1110011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, my are repeated.
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- summary of Kept Waiting!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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