This is an analysis of the poem Waiting For The Barbarians that begins with:
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcd BXdecf BgahbXXhhX BhXb BdfaecXabghf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,6,10,4,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010100010 0010011101 1001011000010 11010011011010 010010011001 111010011 100100111101010 10110011110 110110101011 101011001 010010011001 10100010001110 11100101011 0101000101 1111101101101 10101011010 11111100110100 1110000100100 1111001001 100101011 010010011001 11111000100 1110101001101100 01110111101 010010011001 111110011010 10101000010 11001010101 1101111001100 1011011101 011110100100111 111110100101 11101001010 1111001001010100 10110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
The author used the same word because at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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