This is an analysis of the poem The Blind Man At The Fair that begins with:
O TO be blind!
To know the darkness that I know. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abaB abab XbaB ababXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 01010111 01110101 01010111 01011111 01010101 1000101 11010111 01010011 010101001 01010101 11010111 11010100 11011111 11000101 11010111 11010101 1011101 11010001 11010111 11110101 11111101 11010001 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; white is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, white are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Blind Man At The Fair;
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