Analysis of Wait for Me Down by the Timberline
Wait for me down by the timberline
Wait for me and we will see
Wait for me down by the timberline
And we will see if we will always be free
She got all her things together
And got up on her horse
She rode out to the timberline
To wait for him of course
The sun went down and the moon came up
Bright as it could be
And as it got dark and the stars shone bright
She thought why is it only me
Well it was nearly 3 a.m. when she heard his voice
And when she saw him there she began to rejoice
So they rode off together
And knew they would never part
From that very moment until the end of time
For he had said Repeat the first four lines
| Scheme | AbAbcdadebfbggchij |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111010 1110111 11111010 0111111111 11101010 011101 1111010 111111 011100111 11111 0111100111 11111101 11110111111 011111101101 1111010 0111101 111010010111 1111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 616 |
| Words | 137 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 496 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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