This is an analysis of the poem Echo that begins with:
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc aXacdd efefgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010001 1001010001 1011011111 111101 1101 1100110100 1111111101 11001100101 1110010111 110101 1011 11001001111 1101011111 1101011101 1101011111 111111 1111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; come, sweet, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, o, where are repeated.
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