Analysis of The Three Silences Of Molinos
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Three Silences there are: the first of speech,
The second of desire, the third of thought;
This is the lore a Spanish monk, distraught
With dreams and visions, was the first to teach.
These Silences, commingling each with each,
Made up the perfect Silence, that he sought
And prayed for, and wherein at times he caught
Mysterious sounds from realms beyond our reach.
O thou, whose daily life anticipates
The life to come, and in whose thought and word
The spiritual world preponderates.
Hermit of Amesbury! thou too hast heard
Voices and melodies from beyond the gates,
And speakest only when thy soul is stirred!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100110111 01010100111 1101010101 1101010111 11000100111 1100110111 0110011111 010011101101 111101010 0111001101 0100011 10111111 10010010101 011011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 491 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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