This is an analysis of the poem Silent Are My Whispers that begins with:
You I wish to touch and hold near.
It is you in my mind and heart, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXXaaabXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111 00101111 101000101 11110100010110 1111110 11010101001 100100101001 010101 101110 111 11 110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; you, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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