This is an analysis of the poem Waiting that begins with:
My love will come
will fling open her arms and fold me in them, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcXXXbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 01100111100 01011101110 0001010011 0110010101 1101100101 100111100 111001111 0111001 11110101101 0010010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 453
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word will is repeated.
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- summary of Waiting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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