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 |
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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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