This is an analysis of the poem By Now So Sick Of Waiting that begins with:

By now so sick of waiting, I'm by now
so beaten by the pain (by now the burn...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cddc ddX eXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1111010011 1101011101 1111011101 1100011111 1111100111 1001011101 1101010101 1101110111 1101111101 1011110101 1101010101 1111111101 0101010100 1111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; by, so, now, and are repeated.

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