Analysis of Silence
Thomas Hood 1799 (London) – 1845 (London)
There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave—under the deep, deep sea,
Or in wide desert where no life is found,
Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound;
No voice is hush’d—no life treads silently,
But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free,
That never spoke, over the idle ground:
But in green ruins, in the desolate walls
Of antique palaces, where Man hath been,
Though the dun fox or wild hyæna calls,
And owls, that flit continually between,
Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan—
There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone.
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Metre | 1101011111 1101011111 0011100111 1011011111 1111011101 1111111100 110101101 1101100101 10110001001 1011001111 101111111 01110100001 1101000111 101101110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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