This is an analysis of the poem I Am Waiting that begins with:
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAbAcdAefAdghAeiAhjeAklAB aAdcAiAXmAmgidmAmbAB iAbAhXaggAiXeAmXmB haibAjbAlAbclgAmhB kfmibAkgbAiklAnbAeglBXageiAmmAhbhnAbamhlAbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,20,18,18,43,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111011 11110 1001010 11110 1110100100100 11 11110 100100 0010101001 11110 10010010 010101 1101111 11110 10100100 011 11110 101001 101011 1100 11110 101010001 01100 11101000010 001010 1110101010 11110 10010010 0110101010 11110 10101001 11110 1001 110100100 11110 01111010 110110 010111 0110 0101 11110 1011000101 00111010 11101000010 001010 11101110001 11110 10010100110 11110 101001 101001 011011110 1101100 0010111 11110 1010001 00111000 01101000 11110 1101100111 11110110110 01101001 00101010 111010101001 11110010 10100010100010 11011000100 11110 10101 0010 11110 0111100 11110 101010110 010100 001010110101 10010010 11110 101100101 001100 00101010 1110101 110111 1110101010 1101000 0110 11110 1001001 011101 111100 11110 1100101 010001 01010100 11110 111001 00101010 11110 11010 0111 10100100100 00101010 1110 0111010 010100 1101011011 11110 101100101 11111101 11110 11101000001 011110 1111001 01010010 11110 10111010 1110100010 10101010101 01110111 101 11110 010001010 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 522
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 123
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, waiting, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines again is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word wonder at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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