This is an analysis of the poem Silences In The Mind that begins with:
Silences in the mind, the haunting Silences,
Silences daunting,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXaaXaXaXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 100001010100 10010 110101100101 11010 10111110001 11110 1101010100 11010 10101000101 11010 01011100010 01010 1001010001 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 451
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; silences is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word silences is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase silences connects the lines.
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