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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