This is an analysis of the poem The Silence In The Church that begins with:

“The congregation shall be desired, secretly in their prayers, to make their humble
supplications to God . . . . ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXc XXXde bfbf ebeb bcbc ghgh Xccbb iijj d daa kkjjXffjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,1,3,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 010101001010001101110 100001 101111010110 1 11 11010110 11110010 11110111 110101 010011111 110101 01000111 110101 10010101 011101 11010101 010111 110011101 0100101 11011101 110101 11010111 110101 11010101 110101 11 11111101 01110101 11010101 11100101 11010101 010101101 01011101 010100101 11110101 01110111 11110111 01110100 10111101 01010101 01000101 01010101 11110101 01110111 11110111 01011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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