This is an analysis of the poem The Dictionary of Silence that begins with:
And in that city the houses of the dead
are left empty, if the dead are famous enough; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa cded ffag cXaX hicX ehja dkka cbaX hdaa leea mfjm hggl giiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110010001 111000111001 110101010101 101011101 10100101001 1000100111 1110010101 11010101101 10110 101111010101 010101000101 1110 1101101 1111111111001 1111011010001 0111001011000 0111110111 011001101011 1101111100 101010010 100111011 1001111010001 1110100100010 11100101110 11000100011 1010010100111 111100010011 11101000100001 1101110010100 1111111010001 1111001011011 010100 10011111 11011111011 0100101001010 1000101101 1101100 11101001 1001011111 100101110 1001101011 11110111101010 10100010110 10010110111 1010101 11110010010110 0100100100010110 0101011001 11101010 11101010110101 1100110010101 010010011011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; empty, in, that, to, or, tired are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words down, empty, go, in, just, no, tired are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines something is repeated).
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- summary of The Dictionary of Silence;
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