This is an analysis of the poem Waiting that begins with:
Oh, how I love the fine old chap
Who sits upon my left at meals,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXX cdcdcX eaeafX gbgbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 11011111 11010011 01011101 111101 11011111 11010111 11110101 11000101 11010101 011100101 1101100 01011111 11011001 110001001 11010011 11010101 01010101 11010101 01011111 11110011 11110101 010110101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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