This is an analysis of the poem The Voice Of Silence that begins with:
Hath Sound alone a voice? Nay, 'tis not so:
Silence can speak unto the inner ear,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cccc deed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111 1011100101 0001011101 0101010111 1011000101 1101000101 1111010101 1100100101 0111010101 1101111101 1110001101 0111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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