This is an analysis of the poem Waiting that begins with:
A square, squat room (a cellar on promotion),
Drab to the soul, drab to the very daylight;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb cXXb Xabc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101010 10011001011 1001001001010 10111100001 11010100110 10111100010 11110101110 1111110111 11010101011 01111101011 01110101110 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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.
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