Poem Analysis of Have You Been Waiting For This? by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Have You Been Waiting For This? that begins with:

Have you been waiting for this?
With lips twisted, head tilted......

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Rhyme scheme: ABAAcdXEaf AgfXfhhfAg AXccgdggXABAAdgEfbf
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,19,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101010 0110110 1110101 1101010 010101 1100010 011 11 10101 001011101010 1101010 11001010100 01101010101 0010010100001 01011011101 110111101 1111101 101010101 1101010 1100101001011 1101010 10011110100 0111011011 00110011111 11100101101 1011010 001001101010 001110010001 1101010 0110110 1110101 1101010 11010 01110101 11 111010 1010001 01010
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
Average number of words per stanza: 53
Amount of lines: 38
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word have is repeated.
The author used the same word have at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word get at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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