This is an analysis of Silence by James Whitcomb Riley.
Thousands of thousands of hushed years ago,
Out on the edge of Chaos, all alone…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001001001 1101010101 1111010110 0101111111 1101010111 11010100111 11011100101 0101100101 1101111111 1101011111 0101110101 1101001111 01111100101 11110011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
of, nor, any, i
Anaphora
nor