This is an analysis of the poem The Three Silences Of Molinos that begins with:
Three Silences there are: the first of speech,
The second of desire, the third of thought;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100110101 01000100101 0001010101 0111010101 11000100101 1100110111 1111011111 01001010111 1111010101 0101101111 01000110000 10010001111 10110000101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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