This is an analysis of the poem Earth's Silences that begins with:
How dear to hearts by hurtful noises scarred
In the stillness of the many-leavèd trees,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXbcdcdeeaXaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 0010001011 0100110101 1000010101 0100111101 0101100101 1101110101 1111111101 11000110101 1101110101 1101110101 11010100001 1011010101 1001010001 1001010111 0101010101 11010011111 0101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 792
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, as, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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