This is an analysis of the poem In Imitation Of E. Of Rochester : On Silence that begins with:
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Silence! coeval with Eternity;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaa Xccc Xddd Xeee afff aaba Xggg XXhh Xiii Xaaa aggg Xggg Xfff XXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 101000100 1111010100 111101111101 1 1101111111 110101101 111111110101 1 11001000111 01110010001 110101010101 1 0111011111 11001010111 110101110101 1 1101101101 1001011101 110101111101 1 0101110111 0101000100 110101010101 1 0101010101 1011010101 110001110101 1 1101001110 1011110001 110111110111 1 100100101001 0101000101 110101110101 1 1111111111 1111100101 110111110110 1 11111000001 0100110111 110101110101 1 1100010101 11001110101 100101101101 1 0101010001 01010100111 111101110101 1 0101010100 1101011101 110111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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