This is an analysis of the poem Don’t Wait For Your Lover Any Longer that begins with:

Dusk has fallen. Go home.
Don’t wait any more....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXcXXXXaXX Xcab Xc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011 11101 111101 00101100101110 10010010 101111010 011111110101 010101 1011100101 011100010001 101100 11001000010110 11111111 0111010010 11011101101 001001111 0100100111001010101100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; trees is repeated.

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  • summary of Don’t Wait For Your Lover Any Longer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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