Analysis of The Epileptic
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
His splendid heart is set within a frame
Of manly massiveness, and giant limbs.
And strong to move, he helps the maimed and the lame,
While his pride of strength the laugher brims
His eyes and spreads. He heaves his might chest
In mirth at every feeble joke and jest.
But sometimes in the height of joy he’ll start
Pale-cheeked, as though within his ear he heard
Some shocking whisper calling at this heart,
And knew the call, and trembled at its word.
And so he passes into horridness,
Within the claw of some hot fiend of prey,
And fights with blinded hands and pitiless,
Till back again he lisps his dreary way.
Scheme | ABABCCDEDEBFGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 11010101 01111101001 111110101 110111111 01110010101 1010011111 1111011111 1101010111 0101010111 01110011 0101111111 0111010100 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 486 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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