Analysis of Silence Distills
Writing the lines,
one word remains absent
To give the verse promise,
new voices to fill
Speaking my heart,
I pause before ending
Taking a breath
—as the silence distills
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 110110 110110 11011 1011 110110 1001 101001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 03, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 27, 2019
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