This is an analysis of the poem It's Been...Too Long, A Wait For Me that begins with:
If you want romance,
Is there still a chance......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABAC AABAC DEB F DEB F AABAC Db a DEb ae DEBgHh DEB HG DEB HGXDEB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,1,3,1,5,2,1,3,2,6,3,2,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101 01101 11101 01111010 10101010 01101 01101 11101 01111010 10101010 00 11 0111 11111010 00 11 0111 11111010 01101 01101 11101 01111010 10101010 00 110111 11101 00 11 0101 11001 011101010 00 11 0111 1110101 01101111 11001011 00 11 0111 01101111 1011101 00 11 0111 01101111 1011101 00 11 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 62
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of It's Been...Too Long, A Wait For Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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