This is an analysis of the poem The Deaf And Blind that begins with:
Do we reach the sea with clocks
In our pockets, with the noise of the sea ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX bbXX aaXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110101 0110001001 0011110100 0010111010 010100111101 010011110001 10101101 01110111 0001101011010 0011111011 1101010111 101101001101 111010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; sea is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the are repeated.
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