This is an analysis of the poem Silent Is The Afterglow that begins with:
Silent is the rush that is hushed,
When dew to witness at dawn appears....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababca cdaXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10001101 110101101 10010101000 1110101 10010111010 00101111001 10001010100101 0010101110101 110010101001 010100010100 0001001111 0100101100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word silent at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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