This is an analysis of the poem The Waiting Wife that begins with:
Out on the hillside the wild birds crying,
A little low wind and the white clouds flying,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa aaaa bbaa ccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101110 01011101110 01011001010 11110010110 1001001010 010011011010 1010111010110 101111101110 1111010010 00101101110 10010110110 01011001010 0101111010 1101111010 11011100010 1010011010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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