This is an analysis of the poem Waiting -- Afield At Dusk that begins with:
What things for dream there are when spectre-like,
Moving among tall haycocks lightly piled, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbXcaaXXcdeXffgXaegeXbfgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 1001110101 11001010101 01010010111 10010000101 11011111 01011100111 11110111001 1101001010010 01011010101 11010111010 11001010101 1101101101 1101110111 1001111101 1001011101 1101000101 1011011101 0001010110111 1101111111 1011000100 1111110101 1101101101 1111010111 110001010010 11010001101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1185
- Average number of words per stanza: 214
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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