This is an analysis of Silence by Thomas Hood.

Silence

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abbaaXbacdcddd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,
  • Metre: 10 1001011011 1001011110 0011100111 1011011101 1101111101 1101111100 1111011101 1101100101 10110001001 0011001110 101111101 11110100001 1001010111 101100110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

silence, no, and

Anaphora

there