This is an analysis of the poem Without A Word Heard To Be Spoken that begins with:
When someone has been tested,
With each step taken to move forward......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXbb ab XXaXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 011100110 0111010101 001 11001011010 10101101010 10100001010001 01011100111 111110011001 0101011010111 01 00111001011 010100001 1100 010110010 10100000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Without A Word Heard To Be Spoken;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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