This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Silence that begins with:
Aye, but she?
Your other sister and my other soul...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXcdXeaffgddXbbhhiijjdjdXggjbbjdjjfXfffkfcdllidaXdifffXgiibfX kaakamXanaaXkbhhmmbhmhoohhddjffjkkobobXmbaaba babbbaXcbXjmfmff bjjcbX ee bdhbbhffddbkkmi maaXkXXcXakfagf nhhXbjhhbnjjX gmemameaBebemmXXkmmmeXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,45,16,6,2,15,15,13,24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 1101011101 110100 10110010100 1011 110101 111101 1100111101 1101010 10011001010 1101110100 100101111101101 1011 11100 1101000111100110011 11111101010011 110001 1101010101 011101 10010101110101 11011111010 0100001 110111 010011 010101 010000101110 0011010 01000111010 011101 110001011010 101101010101010 1101010101001010 10001001 10110011110 1101011010100110 1011011 10100111000 010001 011011011 1001100101 11010011101 110101 1101000100 101101 00110101001 1001010101 1110010101 10110010101 0101011 01100 11011110101 01101001101101 1011011 110001 111000101 1000111000 10010101010100 0101010101 110101 1101000010001 110101 110101011100010 10111011111 1101010101 1110 1111010001 11010100010101 011101 0101000 1111 111111 10001 10111011010101 0101100010110 11011100101 0111011101 1001010101 110101 110111 11000100001 110011000101 11010001011111 10110101001111 111100101 1100101011100101 0111011111 11110100101 111110110101111 1101 0101011111 1111001100 110101 100101 1101110100 1111011111 100110101010101 1001100011 1101111101 0011 11010111110101 110100010110 010101 1101010101 111111 1101010111 111111 11111111111101 1001010001 01010101001 11111101010 1111010101 0100010 110101 111011100 10110101110 11001101 010101000 10011101011101 1110010001 1001010001 1101100111 10010101111101 011011001110101 1101010110010010001001 1011010011 11010111011101 110110011010 0111010111 11000101110010 1001110101 110010111010101 11111101011 11001101 101101 110011 110111 1101011101 011101 010001 1101011101 10011101110101 110101 1111010101 1111011101 0111110101 11111100 110001 11 110101 010010 10001010101 0101010101 010101011011 1001001010 1001011000 1001010111 010001 01000001001 10011110001 10001010100 101100100110101 0001011111 110111 100101 1100000 111110011 1101110111 11000101001 01110100110101 111101 1101111011 111000010101 10010100110111 01000010001110100 11001110100 010101 111101 1101110101 10110100001 010101 1101010111 111 1101011101 110101 1111000101 010111 110001 11 1011110100100 01010101010 11001000101 111101 0011010011 100101 01110010111001001 1111011 11111111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 764
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 198
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; not, and, you, her, from, what, me, them, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, not, i, the, that, and, beyond, whereon, a 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 Ode To Silence;
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