This is an analysis of the poem Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 12 that begins with:

A preacher imagined his miserable voice to be pleasing and raised useless shouts, thou wouldst have said that the crow of separation had become the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a Xb b cXddXbac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001001000100101110111111010101010101001101101100010010010100101010000101010011 101010111 10110011 101000101101001000001000100010101110001101011100101001101110100011011010110111101110111111111111011011010010001011001010000111111111101101111101010101011011110101001110101010111001001101011101100100011 11010010001 011110001000 110111101010 111010011100 1100111100 011010101 1111111 10001001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 131 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 23
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, that, voice, him, have, i, preacher, thou, dreamt, his, on, hast, become, said, my are repeated.

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