This is an analysis of the poem In The Waiting Room that begins with:

In Worcester, Massachusetts,
I went with Aunt Consuelo...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdedfaghdhEiaXgccjXafhgkacgklmcbhjakhgjbngnofbkceX ghmXhanodlegacgagackj bjgajEacjiXppqb bkqc bhahoX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,21,15,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010 1101100 01010010 1111010 0010101 0110011 100101 1101110 101101 11101 11101 111011 1111011 01001010 1111100 100101 00100010 111010 1011010 0100010 1011010 101010 111110 0111101 10100101 100101 111101 1101001 1111010 101011 1101010 110111 111101 11111010 0101001 100001 11101 11001 110111 1101101 1011111 0101010 1110010 110111 010101 11011 11011 011011 111101 1101010 1110010 001001010 10101 1101111 1101001 1110001 00100101 01101 001111 1111111 1110100 11100 111011 110101 0110111 1101001 11011010 110011 101111 1100101 101001 1111010 11010110 1011010 111011 111100 110100 1101001 11011110 01001010 1110101 111010 111111 1110110 1101100000 1111001 101101 0101111 1111110 010111 1110110 010111 0101010 111100 011111 0101010 011111 101101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 527
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 99
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, with, you, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, you are repeated.

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  • summary of In The Waiting Room;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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