Analysis of The Blind Man
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
Within a corner of this windowed room
He sits, and seldom speaks, and seldom
moves.
Forever left within eternal gloom,
He thinks of those he left, and those he loves.
The clouds were his, the colours of the day,
The purple mists, the deepest shades of blue,
The yellow flames, the stars, the milky way,
And smiles and frowns, and stretching moon-
light too.
He knew the sun upon the eastern sea,
And watched it set behind a western hill.
He saw the depth of waters, - space, - the free
Ascent of birds. All these he knew until
The bursting shell. And now, as life is long,
He sits alone, and whistles some old song.
Scheme | ABCADEFEGFHIHIJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011101 110101010 1 0101010101 1111110111 010101101 0101010111 0101010101 01010101 11 1101010101 0111010101 1101110101 0111111101 0101011111 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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