This is an analysis of the poem I Can Afford To Be Patient that begins with:
I can wait.
I can afford to be patient....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCAacXac AABCAXdXadXAaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 11010010 101011101 011110 00101110010 1010101 10101100 11011011010 0110101 0111011011 111 11010010 101011101 011110 00101110010 11110101111010 01010101 11010111 1111101101 011001101 11010010 1111 11011101000101 100100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of I Can Afford To Be Patient;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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