This is an analysis of the poem The Silence Of Love that begins with:

I COULD praise you once with beautiful words ere you came
And entered my life with love in a wind of flame. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111101001111 110110100101 11100100111001 1010100101001 0010100100111 111100100101 1011001011001 10111101011101 110101110111 001010101001 110111110101 110010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, , in are repeated.

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