This is an analysis of the poem The Blind Boy that begins with:
O SAY what is that thing call’d Light,
Which I must ne’er enjoy; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab baba cbcb dede XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111 111101 11010001 111111 11010111 110111 11111111 110111 11111111 101111 11110101 011111 01011101 111101 11010111 011111 11111101 110101 11111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, with are repeated.
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