Analysis of Silence
Silence in the wee hours of the morning
Silence in the wee bewitching, luminal hours
Of a dark forested night
A sliver of light
Signaling dawn's awakening.
Time to meditate
To free one's mind
To forget
Not to ponder
On things that
Will never change.
Or bad habits
That will not be broken
Because free will
Is so powerful.
Time to regroup
To refresh
To be still
To think, not
Time for silence.
Sweet silence
Oh, how I count
The hours
Oh, how I await Thee!
Like a lover's
Sweet embrace.
Scheme | ABCCA XXXXXX XXDX XXDXE EXBXBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10001101010 10001110010 1011001 01011 10010100 1110 1111 101 1110 111 1101 1110 111110 0111 11100 1101 101 111 111 1110 110 1111 010 111011 1010 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 463 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 4, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
This poem is about the beautiful respite of silence.
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Written on September 30, 1962
Submitted by yasminamico on June 21, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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