This is an analysis of the poem Cripple that begins with:

Once when I saw a cripple
Gasping slowly his last days with the white plague, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXbXbXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 10100110011 1001011011 10001000101 001110011001 11011 11101001110 10001010 10010110010 111110 10010110101 11000101101 0110100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 506
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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