This is an analysis of the poem Silent Steps that begins with:
Have you not heard his silent steps?
He comes, comes, ever comes. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa Xa bbX aa aa XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111101 1001011001 100111001111101 10011110100101 111111101 1111010 00101010101010111 1101 0010100111010010001 111101 01010100001110111 1000101001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; comes, every are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word every is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines comes is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word comes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase comes connects the lines.
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