Analysis of Help The blind
There were bedspreads of darkness around him,
rays of light deserted him in peak of youth,
submerging his silhouette in waves of merciless Black,
crippling all fantasies of beauty and form,
subjecting him to brutal strokes of destiny,
caressing him with marathon minutes of despair,
divesting him of essential ingredients of life,
evaporating remnant traces of hope with seconds zipping by.
he read projected script of authentic Braille,
danced with counterpart mate in galleries of incessant gloom,
ate and slept in confinement, till escorted by those with sight,
carried a metallic cane with shades of white and scarlet red,
bore everyday brunt of sardonic laughter,
looked enchanting in strips of stained black glass,
groped his way, confronting traffic with melted introversion,
watched television solely relying on the cadence,
occasionally wore gaudy cloth upside down,
he could dream of none but blackness, as he was oblivious to light,
recognized all in proximity by their voice,
bereft of precious centers of vision he lay unattended,
there are several of his kind devoid of sight,
c'mon friends lets gear up to help the blind.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110011 11101010111 11010111001 100110011001 010111011100 010111010101 01011010010011 0100101011110101 11010110101 11101010010101 101001010101111 100010111110101 11011101010 1010011111 111010101101 11001000101010 010001101111 11111110111010011 10100100111 0111010110110010 11101110111 0111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,135 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 14 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 465 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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