This is an analysis of the poem Song - Wait But A Little While that begins with:
WAIT but a little while—
The bird will bring ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccc Adedfff AeXeggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 0101 01011100 10001 111100101 01010111 1101 110101 0101 010101011 1101 11010101 11010111 1111 110101 0101 10011101 0101 011111111 01000111 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word wait at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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