This is an analysis of the poem Speak! that begins with:
WHY art thou silent! Is thy love a plant
Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXbcdcede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111001101 11110101001 1101011111 0111011101 1111110100 1011000101 01110010100 1111110011 1101111101 1101010111 0111001101 1001011101 1011010101 11110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 782
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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