Analysis of Waiting for You



I've been waiting for you to come into my life.
I've been waiting for your beauty and elegance.
I've been waiting for your trust and compassion.
I've been waitng for our worlds to collide.
I didn't realize it would tear us apart.


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 111011110111 111011100100 11101110010 1111101101 11010111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 225
Words 42
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 178
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted on October 15, 2013

Modified on March 22, 2023

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