Analysis of The Blind Reader.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
His blindness lends a magic to his fingers,
As if his seeing subtlety were sensed
In them, and his wits left his eyes to work
In the nimble digits as they read for him.
Scheme | ABCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101110 1111010001 0101111111 00101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 173 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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