This is an analysis of the poem The Sightless Man that begins with:
Out of the night a crash,
A roar, a rampart of light;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab bcbcbc dedede bbbbbb f ghghijijkikibbiggi ililmhmmhccXijifgfgnbnbmmgg mnmniXoo XXggddgghhnnddggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,1,18,27,8,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100101 0101001 0111101 1001011 100101 1101001 100111 111101 101111 00111101 110100 101101 010111 100011 111111 110101 100101 00110111 111101 1101101 1111101 100101 110111 110101 1111 1101001101 110100111 100100111 1010111111 111111111 101101010 1110111101 11101011010 110010101 010110111 111101101 1010111101 11111111 10100101101 1011001001 11001101101 100110101 110010111 1010011101 10101101 0100101101 110011111 1111110101 100100101 10111101 1110110101 10110011 11101101 10100111 1111101001 1110111111 111101010 111111001 1111101101 1111101101 1110010101 1111101101 101011111 0111101101 1011100101 1011010111 111111111 111101001 1110111111 111100101 111100101 110111111 101110101 001010101 1101100101 110101010010 111101100 101111101 11 110100111 100010101 010010101 111110101 110111111 110101101 1111111111 11101101111 1100101111 110110101 1100101101 1110101101 111011101 010100101 100111110 1110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, there, at, i, we'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, there, i'll are repeated.
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- summary of The Sightless Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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