This is an analysis of the poem They Say That The Plants Do Not Speak that begins with:
They say that the plants do not speak, not the brooks, nor the birds,
Nor the waves with their roar, not with their brilliance the stars,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXabX aXaaX aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101111101101 1010111011001 1111110011111111 11001111 1011010010 0010101001101 11110101001 1100101110100101 1111011101101 111110101001000 00010010111 1001001000111 11101111101 11101100110011 0101011011111010 0101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, not, say, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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