This is an analysis of the poem The Blind Girl that begins with:
Kind Christians, pray list to me,
And I'll relate a sad story,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb aacc aaaa ccXX ddaX eeff cgeX ffXf hhii ccff eXdd gceeXaagc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101 11010110 01001011101001 110010001010 111110101101 1010010111 1010110111101 011110101 11010111111 11101111001 101010111 111000101100111 1111001101 100111010001 1110101101010 1011111001011100 1110011101010 100101111110 1110101001111 10100111101010 1101010100101 11101010100 111111101 10111011 111100101111101 11101101101 111011010101 110110011110 1001110111 010100101111 100110111011010 100101011101 11010110101 11011001110101 100101010101 11100111011 11101010101 11111111001 10101101001 1110101111111 0111010111001 10101010100 1010111111110 10111110010 11101101101011 11101110111 110101001 111100111 10101111001 11010100101001 10100110101 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; and, to, wren, she, you, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and, so are repeated.
The author used the same words and, she, so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Blind Girl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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