This is an analysis of the poem Prelude To A Volume Printed In Raised Letters For The Blind that begins with:

DEAR friends, left darkling in the long eclipse
That veils the noonday,--you whose finger-tips... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeddffgghhXdbbiibb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111000101 1101011101 0100110111 11110010101 0101111101 0101010111 0101010111 11110101010 1111111111 1101110101 0111111101 1111111101 0101010101 1101110100 1101011111 1101111111 1101010101 1100110101 1011110110 1101110101 1001011101 0101010101 0101010101 0111010111 1101010101 01010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 588
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, to are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Prelude To A Volume Printed In Raised Letters For The Blind;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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