This is an analysis of the poem We Wait Much Too Late that begins with:
We wait much too late,
Tolerating a procrastination....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcaaaadX AddeefgAd AhhbbbAIe jIcIaajagbbbeI afafcjaIXacehaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,9,14,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 1010001010 111011001 1011010 101110001 1010100101 00101000 11111100100 011100 01010111 11111 1011010101010 0101011111 1101111001 010010001 1001110 101101111 11111 1101 11111 11101001 0011011001 1101101001 1111011110101 1110101110001 11111 11 0111001001001 110111 11 10110111 11 1100101 10101101 101100010 11101001010001 1111001110 11101010010111 1010101 001111010 1100110001111 11 11 1111111101 001100101001011 00010011 110110011100 010010 111011010010001 11 11110111 01001100010101 01011010001 10001001001010101 111111110101 1101000111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; we, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same words we, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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