This is an analysis of the poem Waiting that begins with:
Serene, I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bbbX ecec fafaXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111111 11111111 11111111 11111101 11111101 11100101 110100101 11011111 01011111 01111101 11111101 11010100 11001101 11010100 11111011 11010101 01011111 011010101 11000101 10010101 01110001 01011001 11111111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Waiting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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