This is an analysis of the poem That Great Waiting Silence that begins with:
Where shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?
The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabB ccbB ddee ffgg hhbB aabBXeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111100111111 01011010101011 11101111011111 1111010010101 1001011000110111 10101111010101101 01010011001101001 11110100100101 111111010111101 100101101010101 1001011100111 1110010010010111 01011101011101 101100111011101 1111001010110101 11111110010101 11111111111101 11100100101100101 1010010101011111 1111010010101 11101101101111 1001001011100001 101111000110111 11110100100101 101101011111111 101100101101111 111001001011101 1010110100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, australian, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, brothers are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word all at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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