Analysis of A Man in Waiting
All that is left to you
is empty fantasy
while I grow fat with seed
you lovingly planted in me.
It was you who sowed,
tilled, fertilized and plowed.
Earth Mother keeps you in taut suspense,
As you await without tactile sense.
My womb soil turns,
areates and rakes
waiting for the day
my water breaks.
| Scheme | XAXA BBCC XDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111111 110100 111111 11001001 11111 11001 110110101 110101101 1111 101 10101 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 289 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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