This is an analysis of the poem The Blindness Of Orion that begins with:

So blind Orion, groping for the morn
With eyes uplift whereon forever hung...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccaaXddXeafXdXdada cefXcecXebdeXeae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 0110100101 1001010101 1101110101 11011100101 1101010101 11001110001 1110010101 0101011101 1101010101 100010110010 11001010101 1001010100 0101001101 1001011111 11010100101 0101010001 01010101001 11010010001 0101010 111 1101010101 0101010001 01010111110 1100110101 1101010100 10010010101 1101010101 1101110011 010111101010 0101010101 0101010101 010110100101 01011111110 1101010101 010100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 720
  • Average number of words per stanza: 124
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, of, the are repeated.

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  • summary of The Blindness Of Orion;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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