Analysis of Silence



Our Creator manifests himself in silence
Within our personal depths and beyond
Forms, words, and images…

Suppressing by his grace all the intermediary
Layers and silence will lead us into the depths
Of love.

No longer clinging to ideas, feelings, thoughts,
Emotions, gestures, songs, etcetera.

For by prayer we communicate solely by Contemplating face to face as we adore
From our own condition of clay.

Silence is what remains when we are purified.
A field open to be strolled day by day.

In God see Creation for creation comes from
The toil of God.

The fields, the hills, the forests, the mountains,
The seas, the rivers, animals and human kind
All comes from His heart.

An expression of beauty in which love is the root
And the field is the clay in which we are a part.


Scheme XXX XXX XX XA XA XX XXB XB
Poetic Form
Metre 100101001010 01101001001 110100 0101111001000 100101110101 11 110101010101 0101011100 111101010011001111101 110101011 10110111110 0110111111 011010101011 0111 0101010010 010101000101 11111 1010110011101 001101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 759
Words 137
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on February 23, 2016

Modified on March 26, 2023

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Liam Ó Comáin

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