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 |
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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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