Analysis of Waiting At The Window
Alan Alexander Milne 1882 – 1956
These are my two drops of rain
Waiting on the window-pane.
I am waiting here to see
Which the winning one will be.
Both of them have different names.
One is John and one is James.
All the best and all the worst
Comes from which of them is first.
James has just begun to ooze.
He's the one I want to lose.
John is waiting to begin.
He's the one I want to win.
James is going slowly on.
Something sort of sticks to John.
John is moving off at last.
James is going pretty fast.
John is rushing down the pane.
James is going slow again.
James has met a sort of smear.
John is getting very near.
Is he going fast enough?
(James has found a piece of fluff.)
John has quickly hurried by.
(James was talking to a fly.)
John is there, and John has won!
Look! I told you! Here's the sun!
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH AX II JJ KK LL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 1010101 1110111 1010111 11111001 1110111 1010101 1111111 1110111 1011111 1110101 1011111 1110101 1011111 1110111 1110101 1110101 1110101 1110111 1110101 1110101 1110111 1110101 1110101 1110111 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 763 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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