Analysis of Blindness, the Book.
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
Just take one norm
In the science fix
And give it a twist.
In this case
Vision.
Coordinating function
Business, transport
Clean-up, education
Medical helps
Law and order.
Telecommunication.
Instantly and without notice
Blind in traffic, on the sidewalk
Seated by computer monitors
In hospital corridors.
And government can only apprehend
Sequester in safe “places of medical
Attention”, lock up.
And leave the wicked king-pins
On the inside
To horrible devices and villainy.
But one incarcerated
Our heroine is inside
With sight intact.
Can she effect rescues, requitals.
Author Jose Saramago does
All of this brilliantly.
And bad guys lose.
Scheme | ABCDEEFEGHEIJKKLMNOPEQPRBSTU |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 00101 01101 011 10 010010 1001 11010 1001 1010 00010 10000110 1010101 101010100 010100 010011001 01001101100 01011 0101011 1001 110001001 110100 10100101 1101 110111 10111 111100 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 646 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 522 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Written on January 31, 2023
Submitted by dougb.72572 on January 31, 2023
Modified by dougb.72572 on January 31, 2023
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