This is an analysis of the poem I Speak Yet Am I Silent that begins with:
I speak,
Yet am I silent:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaa XX XX XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 11110 111 1111 11001 11110101 1101011 1111110 1110 111101 11111100 0111111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 66
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world is repeated).
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