This is an analysis of the poem Patience that begins with:
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it.
I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011011101101010 10111110101010 10111010 0100101010010 11111010110101 11101101010010111 11100011010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and are repeated.
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