Analysis of Silent answerphone
Silent answerphone
And silent phone.
Twice silent
In two days.
What’s happening ?
My love
Are your days too good
Too fast ?
Are the memories too tired ?
And your body,
Has your body forgotten ?
Silent phone.
But in the silence
My heart is screaming
A thousand thoughts.
The voice of night
Is overwhelming.
| Scheme | AAXXBXXXXXA AXBX XB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 0101 110 011 0100 11 11111 11 10100110 0110 1110010 101 10010 11110 0101 0111 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 310 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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