This is an analysis of The Blind Man At The Fair by Joseph Campbell.

O TO be blind!
To know the darkness that I know.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab abaB abab XbaB ababXabab
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 1001 01010111 01110101 01010111 01011111 01010101 1000101 11010111 01010011 010101001 01010101 11010111 11010100 11011111 11000101 11010111 11010101 1011101 11010001 11010111 11110101 11111101 11010001 11010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

white

Anaphora

the, white