This is an analysis of the poem Unspoken Language that begins with:
LANGUAGE is slow. The mastery of wants
Doth teach it to the infant, drop by drop,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc defgah cbbfi jkde dlhdmn bjodfh Ximmchepa ggdbqflceaf kffXfpn ggnrbnfah gffdXh qadrrfefdXpnfe qkXahbrgeg gfn hgedbea hhaffrgbj ksjshdXngqo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,5,4,6,6,9,11,7,9,6,14,10,3,7,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010001 1100010111 11010 001001 01010100001 01010010100 1101100101 110010111010 110010 111010 0101011101 0111010101 10001010111 0101001 1101 1011111100 0100010001 1101 010101 0001010001 0100010001 101111101 100101001001 010110 101001 1000111011 11001100100 1011011100 11010101001 010001 0101 00101010101 1101011101 0101010001 0101100100 0101110101 111010111 0101010101 11110 11101 10111100101 1101010111 0111010111 01001010101 0101010101 0101010001 1001011100 01010001001 11001010101 1000 010111 01010010101 1011010010 0111011101 01010101001 01010101001 0001010 111 1111010101 1101000101 11101100001 10010010001 0100111101 1101110101 0101101100 0101011001 0111010101 101010101101 01001000101 1101010110 1101000101 1101 100111 1000010101 0101101111 1101110111 1101101101 1001010001 1100010101 0011010101 01011111001 01010010111 1111110101 01100010101 1101101111 1111 110101 1111010001 1101110110 1101111011 0101010111 01010101001 01111110001 0111110100 1111010001 010101 1101 010010011101 1101 0100111 01001110101 1101001101 01010010111 1001010001 110101001001 010110 10111 11010100111 11111001001 0101110101 1001010101 1101000101 110110001011 1011010111 1101001 0111 10110111011 0100110111 1001011011 0101000100 0011010 111 1111110101 01010101101 0101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 126
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, of, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.
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- summary of Unspoken Language;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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