Analysis of What is Silence?



Silence is snow falling outside your door
Turning the world into seamless white
Covering up all things ugly and impure
Quietly caressing the earth through the night

Silence is a mime telling stories without words
Using only features by his face recorded
He's understood perfectly though his voice isn't heard
By all that see him he's greatly adored

Silence is a window through which one can look
Seeing wondrous things, but not hearing a sound
Silence is also realized in an interesting book
Where exciting stories can always be found

Silence is sitting and thinking thoughts alone
That no one can know really understand
But thoughts make up what your life has sown
In your silent thoughts, I hope they are grand


Scheme XAXA XXXX BCBC DEDE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 1011101111 100101101 10011110001 10001001101 101011010011 101010111010 101100111101 1111111001 10101011111 10101111001 1011010011001 1010101111 10110010101 111111001 111111111 0110111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 697
Words 122
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 147
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

I wrote this poem in a quiet moment thinking about what really is silence?

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Written on May 02, 2020

Submitted by jubshaw47 on October 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Julia Shaw

I am a retired, disabled first-grade teacher of 74 years. I enjoy reading and writing poetry. more…

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