This is an analysis of the poem Patient Enough To Sit that begins with:
I sit and wonder,
Why so many choose to move backward? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcXc Adebbcbcf AfgfXhX hdcbXgD XdHXXXbeggHgD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,7,7,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 111010110 100101001110001 11 100100101111010 1010010111101 11110 1011001010101 0000100101101001 0001101111001101 000101101 100111001 001000110111 0 00100011100100101 11110 10111100101 0100111 100100 0101011011111 1110110010011101 1100100101100101 11101 11111010 0100111011 11010100101 111110 01 11000 1010111011100 0101110 111001 1101100100100 11 1111010 1011101 10100100101 11101011101 111001 01 11000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; why, it, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, is, i 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.
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- summary of Patient Enough To Sit;
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