This is an analysis of the poem After Long Silence that begins with:
Speech after long silence; it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXcca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110110001 11010100111 0101011001 0101010101 1110110110 0100110111 10010000101 1111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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