Analysis of Silence
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
'T is better to sit here beside the sea,
Here on the spray-kissed beach,
In silence, that between such friends as we
Is full of deepest speech.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11101110101 110111 0101011111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 148 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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