This is an analysis of the poem Belisarius that begins with:
I am poor and old and blind;
The sun burns me, and the wind... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb bbbcXb aabddb eeXeec ffbXeb aaagga hhcbbX iiabba ddXjjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 0111101 110101 110101 0010010 10001 011111 01010111 1100001 110111 0110101 110111 110101 110111 100011 110101 1100101 1100101 111101 0100111 11100 110111 00100101 0010101 1101101 110101 011001 1010100 111101 0100101 1101001 011111 010101 010101 010101 111111 101111 100111 010111 110101 0010111 10101000 110011 0010101 010001 1101001 111001 1011011 1010001 00101001 0010100 010000 011111 11000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, all are repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Belisarius;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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