Waiting. As If In The Cold...Outside! by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Waiting. As If In The Cold...Outside! that begins with:

Waiting.
As if in the cold...outside! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXBCDb XXeFGE cbcbX aXBCDcX ggbaXBXFGE eehhgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,7,10,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 1000100 1001101 1110 111010010 11001011101 11010 010100010 101001 100111011 111111 110111011001 1100011110100 101000010 00110100111010 11110111010 01111111001 10 1000100 1001101 1110 111010010 101011 10100111011000 1111 11011 1111 10 00100 1001101 10111 100111011 111111 110111011001 11101 11101001111 111010111 1 10011 010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, 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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