This is an analysis of the poem The Blind Man’s Bride that begins with:
I.
WHEN first, beloved, in vanish'd hours ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdedeX fgfgcdcdX fafahfhfX ididhahaa fcXcfjfja cacabfbfX klklffffX fafagcgcX ieiemama
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 1101001010 01111101 111111110 11010101 11110111 0111011 11010101 01000111 1 11111101 0111101 11111111 01010111 11110111 10111101 110010101 011101001 1 11111111 11010111 11111111 11001101 11110101 10000111 11111101 11111101 1 11111111 01010001 10110111 11110001 11110111 01001110 11010101 110001111 1 110011010 11111101 110101110 11110101 11111101 001010011 111101001 11110101 1 11101101 11010101 01001111 11010101 11110101 111101001 11010101 110010101 1 111100111 11011101 11011111 01010111 11111101 11011111 10010111 11111101 1 110101111 11010101 11011111 11010011 11011111 11110001 11110111 01000101 1 11110101 01110101 11110101 11111101 11110101 11010111 111111001 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, thy are repeated.
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