This is an analysis of the poem Ii. The Quest Of Silence that begins with:

Secreta Silvarum: Prelude
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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,52,15,43,9,40,29,18,16,8,14,18,14,20,14,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010011 11110101 01010101 110100101 110100101 11010101 11010101 11110111 10110101 01010101 01010111 1110100101 10011101 11101101 10010101 110110011 11110101 1111001101 010000101 1100101 01010111 11010111 11010101 11010111 01010001 11111101 11110101 100111101 110111001 11010101 101100101 10010101 01010101 01111101 01010101 110100111 11010111 110101010 01001000 01010101 01000101 110101111 11010101 011100101 110101001 1101111 11010101 101110111 01010101 010011101 11011111 01111101 11010101 1 1101010101 1101000101 0101010101 01010100111 0111110101 1001111101 1111000101 100101010 1101010101 1000110101 1001000111 010010110001 0101110001 111110010 1 1101110011 1100110111 11010011101 1101010001 111000100111 1101111101 1101011101 11110000101 1101010011 1100011101 110010111100 00101010101 1111110101 0011111001 0100010101 1111111101 01010111001 1101000101 1111010101 1111010101 1001010100 1001000101 11000011101 1111010101 1101010101 10010010111 0001011111 11001111111 1101000101 1101111101 01001110101 01001000101 110010011101 1101010101 1011110101 1101110111 00110100101 1111010111 0111010101 1111110111 0101110101 110010101001 1 010101111001 1001001100111 110100110001 110111010111 0101001010111 111111111001 01001011000111 000101010010 1 0101010101 1111000101 0001010101 0101110101 10010011101 1100010101 1111010101 1011010101 1100110000101 0101110101 1011010100 11110011100 01001010101 01000110110 01011100111 0111011101 1011000101 0111011011 0011110101 1101011101 0111110111 11001101101 0101010101 1101010111 1101010101 1111010101 1101010111 010101010 0101010101 1100010101 1101010101 1101010101 10101110101 0101101101 1101011101 0101011001 1101110011 0101010101 0101010101 1 110001110101 1101110101 11001001101 1000110101 1101010101 1011110101 01010100101 1101010111 0100010101 0011001101 10011010111 11001010101 1011010111 0100011101 1000101100101 11011000101 11110101011 010101101001 0101010101 0111010101 01000010110 0101011101 0101010101 11100010100 01011000101 1101010101 11001010101 0010010101 110101001 10010101 11011101 10111101 00111011 11010101 01010101 0111100101 10010111 0011001001 11011101 011100111 11010111 01010011 1111001 01110001 10111001 110101001 01110111 01010100 11000101 11111101 01010101 110001001 11010101 01010101 010110101 110011111 01010101 010101001 110100001 10010101 10110101 10110001 1001010101 1101010111 10011001101 1011010101 0101110101 0101010101 1011110101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010100 0101010101 1111010101 0111000101 1101000101 11110101001 1101010111 1111010111 0101010111 0001100001 1101110101 01110101100 0101100101 1011000101 10010101000 0101110101 0101110101 0101100101 1101010101 1001010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 0111110000 01010101001 0101011101 0101010111 1011011101 1001110001 0101110101 01110100101 0101010100 1101010111 1101010101 0101110101 1111000101 1011010111 0111010001 1011110100 111100101 1101011101 0101110101 110100100101 1111101101 1101111101 1011000101 1101010111 0111010101 1111110011 1101101111 1101010111 110101010001 0111011101 1101010101 0101101011 1101011111 01011001101 1111000101 01011010101 1101010101 0100010111 1101101101 1101010111 0111010101 0101110111 111011101 0101110101 11001110101 11111101100 00110111100 0101010101 1011111011 1011100101 0101010101 11010010110 0111011111 0101010101 0101000101 11110101101 1001111101 01110011100 1101110101 1101110001 0101111101 1000100101 0101110101 1101010111 1111110101 1101110101 1011011101 111101010101 1101110101 0100010101 0111011101 11110000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 863
  • Average number of words per stanza: 147
  • Amount of lines: 327
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, to, of, not, that, no, fire are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, no are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines leaves is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word sin at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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