This is an analysis of The Three Silences Of Molinos by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Three Silences there are: the first of speech,
The second of desire, the third of thought;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdXdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1100110101 01000100101 0001010101 0111010101 11000100101 1100110111 1111011111 01001010111 1111010101 0101101111 01000110000 10010001111 10110000101 1101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

the