This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Lii: Tired Of Waiting that begins with:

Tired of waiting, you burst your bonds, impatient flowers, before
the winter had gone. Glimpses of the unseen comer reached your...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXacXXcaXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011110101001 010111000011011 111111110110010 1001010010 100101001011 100101011001111 111110111110 1 01001001100011 0011111010110001 01110011100100100 101 11011001111100 111010111110010 1100111111111111 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 830
  • Average number of words per stanza: 150
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, you, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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