This is an analysis of the poem The Choir And Music Of Solitude And Silence that begins with:
Silence is a great blue bell
Swinging and ringing, tinkling and singing, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXaacXabadaba Xdd ebeebbb acXeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,3,7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000111 10110100110 0101010010100 00100001011 1001 101100011101110 1101101010101 10 1000110001010 01111011010 101000100101010 11100101 111110111010 01110 010001001010100 10 1010010111010010 10 100110011001010 10001100100011010 1 1110111010011 1110 10101100010101010101 110 1011101101110 1001001100010010110 0010001010010 1011010101100 100 1011011111110 1 110111010010010 11010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 398
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase courage connects the lines.
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