Analysis of A Silent Witness
In this graveyard
Where ceases not fire,
Where ceases not lamentations,
I am for eons a silent witness.
Lone I stand on these rolling slopes,
Green fields lie beyond the silent road.
A distant whistle is heard
And I know the last train is also gone.
To so many parting moments
I am an emotional witness.
To every curling smoke
I bid a silent adieu.
Under my cool shades
Meet the forefathers of this hamlet.
And they whisper through my foliage
Unto the perching birds and passing wind.
No cry shakes my roots,
No howling wind wakes the dead.
Beyond the din of the world
All are equal under my sprawling shades.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 110110 11011 1111001010 11111101 111010101 0101011 0110111101 11101010 111010010 1100101 1101001 10111 10101110 01101110 100110101 11111 1101101 0101101 1110101101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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In this poem, a tree with sprawling shades in a graveyard is the silent witness. 'No cry shakes my roots, No howling wind wakes the dead. Beyond the din of the world All are equal under my sprawling shades'.
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