This is an analysis of the poem Witnessing The Launch Of The Shuttle Atlantis that begins with:
So much of life in the world is waiting, that
This day was no exception, so we waited...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbdeefXXdXXdXXccfaXbXbbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010010101 01110101110 11011000101 1110010100 1010010001 0101111000100 10100110110 11001110110 11010110011 01001110111 0101010101 01100101010 01010111001 110010101001 11010010100 10100010001 1101111101 01010100110 0001110101 0111010101 101001011101 1111001101 1111010101 1001011111 10101010101 0101010001 1010101000101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1217
- Average number of words per stanza: 232
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, promised, world are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world is repeated).
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