Analysis of Your Silence



Your silence maybe quiescence
or lack of living breath.
Perhaps it shows morbidity or godforsaken death.

Your silence maybe ignorance
or lack of common sense.
Perhaps it shows stupidity or godforsaken mense.

Your silence maybe diffidence
or lack of simple truth.
Perhaps it shows ill breeding or godforsaken couth.

Your silence maybe repugnance
or lack of amity.
Perhaps it shows repulsiveness or godforsaken plea.

Your silence maybe sufferance
or lack of covenant.
Perhaps it shows mean bigotry or godforsaken brunt.

Your silence maybe negligence
or lack of courtesy.
Perhaps it shows indifference or godforsaken spree.


Scheme ABB AAA AXB ACC ADD AAC
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 111101 01110100111 11010100 111101 01110100111 110101 111101 0111110111 110101 111100 01111111 110101 111100 01111100111 11010100 111100 01110100111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 603
Words 95
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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