This is an analysis of the poem The Blind Rower that begins with:
And since he rowed his father home,
His hand has never touched an oar. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBbacdcd effffgfe haiaia jhjii igkcdfcccdihfkkgaaa bbdhdciaaibllhc iihhXbaii cmbaBmaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,6,5,19,15,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 01110111 11110101 11000101 11011111 11110101 11111111 11110101 11111101 01010111 01110001 11011001 01010101 11001100 110101001 1101001 01010111 01010111 11010001 101110101 110110101 010111 1101 1101 0101 1111 01011111 01111101 101100 11010111 1111 1111 11110111 110101 11110111 11000111 111101 11110101 11111101 01010101 11001111 11010101 110100 11010101 11111111 01110111 111101 110101 110010101 11010001 11111011 11111111 11010111 01010111 11010101 010111 01010101 11011101 01010101 110100101 01010111 111111 111101 111101 111001 110101 11110111 01110111 111111 011111 11010011 01001010 01110101 110001 01110111 1111010 01110101 01110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, he, man are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sky, row, home are repeated).
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- summary of The Blind Rower;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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