This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of The One-Eyed Man that begins with:
Like Oedipus I am losing my sight.
Like Judas I have done my wrong....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaXdedbfgXeea hideiad ejgckgXkkc aaiXjjXablai ebaggkhkah fkbicjiei cfgigkaidCceielXCffacek
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,7,10,12,10,9,23,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111011 11011111 1100010 0110100 1111 1111 10011 1101111011 100110 111110100 101001001 110101 0110 0110011010 11101 010001 001001 11111 1110101010 10101 10110 01001 01 011000101 011011 110110101010 11111 1010110 10110011 01010101 100111 101010 110110101000 1100100 010001010 111101111 0111101 11110 0111110 0110101 0101110 10010 111111001 1111 00111111100 1100110 1101010 1010010100 100111111 010110101 1100101 0010111 0110001001 001 01000010010 0110011 1010110101 100100001 1010010 1010010101 101011010 11011010 1100100011010 11110011110 11111011 101010 1010100010101 111001001 11001001 11101 11010 0111 101010 1111010 11011001 1110001010 1111110 1110 101010 010101 01001 1110101011 11110 101111000 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, as, it, not, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, about, his, not, but, i, other, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mother, dream are repeated).
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