This is an analysis of the poem Waiting To Be Shown What's Real that begins with:
So many people can't believe it,
Nothing here is to stay....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABAaXX AXAXAaaX CDCECDCEXABABCDCECDCECE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 101001 110101010 101101 110101010 1111 101 101000001 110101010 0011 110101010 10001 110101010 1101 101 11111001 110 1100010110 110 11010101 110 1100010110 110 11000111 110101010 101001 110101010 101101 110 1100010110 110 11010101 110 1100010110 110 11000111 110 11000111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word real at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Waiting To Be Shown What's Real;
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