Analysis of She Waits



She waits beside a busy road
And all the time she's there,
The people only pass her by
Because they do not care

How long she's had to wait with hope
That someone will be kind
Enough to help her leave this place
Of loneliness behind.

What things could be so bad at home
To make her leave this way
And face so much uncertainty
That won't soon go away?

The answers that she hopes to find
May not be at her home,
But life can be more harsh for those
Who wander all alone.


Scheme XAXA XBXB CDXD BCXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11010101 010111 01010101 011111 11111111 11111 01110111 110001 11111111 110111 01110100 111101 01011111 111101 11111111 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 470
Words 102
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 24

About this poem

Loneliness and Rejection

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Written on August 19, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on August 19, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on August 19, 2023

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