My Blindness by Eric Torgersen: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem My Blindness that begins with:

Once I woke up in the dark and thought I was blind. There was no light at all. There's always some light.
Blind, I was calm in that perfect...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a a X X X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011111111111111111 11110101111111101110101011 11111101111111000011010111001010 1101111110111010001011111101010010010 11101111101010101 1110011 11111101101010111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 104 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 20

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same word i'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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