This is an analysis of the poem Waiting that begins with:
Today I will let the old boat stand
Where the sweep of the harbor tide comes in...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabaX bXcac XaXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011010111 1010010110 0010011101 11011111101 100111 11111101111010 1011111 0011111001 11111111101 110101010111111 111110100110 1101010011 1011101 0010111101 0101100111 110101001 11111111110 1100101011 111101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Waiting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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