This is an analysis of the poem Disabled that begins with:

He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacbc bdcdcdd efefbeb gbgbegXgd Xdeeded hehXedhdhcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,7,9,7,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100111011 1100010101 1011111101 10011100101 1001110101 110011100001 0101110111 1111000111 11110010111 001101110101 1101010111 1111111101 1001111101 1111010101 1011010111 1101010101 1101010101 1011110111 1101110011 1101010001 1111011101 1001010101 01101111101 1111011101 1111110101 1111010101 1110010101 1101110101 1011011110 1011010111 11000111111 01111101001 1100110101 1101111101 0101111101 11111010111 1111111111 1001011111 11111000101 110101100101 1111010101 1111010111 0111010101 1010011101 1111001111 1110011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, to, of, and, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words voices, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines come is repeated).

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  • summary of Disabled;
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