This is an analysis of the poem Pour Qui Sait Attendre that begins with:
All things, they say, come home to those that wait,
Riches, power, fame, lost fortune, hope deferred,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110111 10101110101 1011110111 101110010001 01010001111 01000111000 1101110101 0111011111 11000101001 1101011101 1101010001 11011101001 110001110111 01010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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