Analysis of I wait for you
I wait for you
ready to leap at you
from every corner
at every turn
gathered to spring at you
from the shadow
of every tree
this is an ambush
but I am not the assassin
I wait, not with a knife,
but love, heavy, dripping in my hands.
| Scheme | A AXXAXX X X XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 101111 110010 11001 101111 101 11001 1111 11110010 111101 111010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 222 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 1, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on August 19, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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