Analysis of Magnificent Silence
Not to argue about Poetry
or justify Prose
Not to discuss their many virtues
or interpretive flows
I choose to remain quiet,
and let the words carry on
Where in magnificent silence
—they turn into song
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001100 1101 110111010 101001 1110110 0101101 10010010 11011 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 241 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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