Come Silently Like The Moon by Kazi Nazrul Islam: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Come Silently Like The Moon that begins with:

O, my love
Come silently in the middle of the night...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abb Xc dXbX ccdXXcbaab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 11000010001 11011 01101 111011 1111001 10101001 1100101011 01010011100 11010011010 1000101 11111011001 111010100100 1111011 10011110101 11111 111011 0110101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).

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