This is an analysis of The Wail Of The Waiter by Marcus Clarke.
All day long, at Scott's or Menzies', I await the gorging crowd,
Panting, penned within a pantry, with the blowflies humming loud,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXbbXXccddXXeeXXXXX XXXddffffggffgghhXXiiXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 23,25,
- Metre: 111111101010101 101010100010101 111000101111101 1010101001110101 101010101010101 111010101010101 101010101010101 101011101010100 111011101010111 1011100101110101 11101010100010010 1010111011001010 101011001011111 0010001001010001 1010110111011111 101010101010101 111110100110101 10010101011100101 1010111110111111 101111101111101 1011101001111111 1111101001110001 111011101111111 11111100111111111 101111101011101 10101011110101 10101001011101001 111000101110101 1110101011101001 11111010001111 111010101010001 100011101000101 101010100010101 110110101110011 001110111011101 011010101110001 0010010101010101 111100100010111 011100101010101 0010101010001001 101010101110111 1010101010110100 1111101110101010 1010100001100010 1100101010101010 1010001000100010 110010101111101 1010111011011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
', and, you, i, me, of, spirit
Anaphora
is
Epiphora
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