Analysis of Still Waiting To Meet You
What was so seemingly a pleasure,
Has turned into pain.
I continue to pass time,
Alone, lying naked in the rain.
How insanely futile it must seem,
For me to remain,
In this life without you,
For to breathe is a strain.
| Scheme | X A X A X A X A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111100010 11011 1010111 011010001 1110111 11101 011011 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 21 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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