This is an analysis of the poem The Word Of The Silence that begins with:
A bare impersonal hush is now my mind,
A world of sight clear and inimitable,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 01010010111 01011101000 01001010111 01011000 1101010011 0010010101101 111100001001 01111101101 1111000101 1001010101 01110100111 1100010101001 110010010101 0010010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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