This is an analysis of the poem The Silence of the Stars that begins with:
When Laurens van der Post one night
In the Kalahari Desert told the Bushmen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefbagbhihjXfikddkXcfacejjcgejceaeXXXcccca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 45,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 001000101010 110101 101100111111 110101001 01101110 10100110111 11101111 100111 111101011 1011101 00101110 110110011 11010010 111101 111110110 000111010 111110 10110011 100100111 1010010 1111010 101110110 1111010 110111111 11110111110 101010111 10110101101 10110101 010100011 10111001001 01100100110 11101011110 011100101010 10101110110010 1111111 10101010011 01111010010 0101110110111 1000101111111 1110010001 11001001 0010010011 110101110 11110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2641
- Average number of words per stanza: 315
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long 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, when, i, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for, when, are are repeated.
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