This is an analysis of the poem Silence that begins with:
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgbXbd hXXfaXXXhhiicbcXjbX cXkfccljjcbilj lcbbimiXXXkgjclXcdbcmce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,19,14,23,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100011001 101000101010 1010001101 1010001 11110101 111101 011010 010011011 11101 11110001000100 1101 0100111110 1001001001 10011110 1011001010 101101 0111010101100 0111000 1111011010 1011010110 1010110 01001010010 01001 10110101 101101001 101101 10110101 110110 1010110110101 111101 1001000110 10100011 10100101010 1001000100010 1111110010 101010010 00010101 10010001 100100101010 1010001011 10011 10010011011 1010100101 10110100110 1001011011011 1001001111 10110110 101011010 10010010 1000100001 101000100 10101 1010011 100101100100 01001111011 11001001 110101010100 0101000011111 01101 110010001 011101101 00101000 11110101 111101 110100100 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 489
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, and, silence, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, there are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Silence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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