Analysis of Golden Silence

Ellis Parker Butler 1869 (Muscatine) – 1937 (Williamsville)



I told her I loved her and begged but a word,
One dear little word, that would be
For me by all odds the most sweet ever heard,
But never a word said she!

I raged at her then, and I said she was cold;
I swore she was nothing to me;
I prayed her the cause of her silence unfold,
But never a word said she!

I covered with kisses her delicate hand,
But she only glanced down where the sea
Low murmured in ripples of love on the sand,
And never a word said she!

I cast her hand from me with rage unsuppressed,
And she turned her blue eyes up to me
And smiled as she laid her fair head on my breast;
'What need of a word?' asked she.


Scheme abaB cbcB dbdb abxb
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11011001101 11101111 11111011101 1100111 11101011111 11111011 11001101001 1100111 11011001001 111011101 11001011101 0100111 110111111 011011111 01111011111 1110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 621
Words 136
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 120
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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