Analysis of Blind Bartimeus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Blind Bartimeus at the gates
Of Jericho in darkness waits;
He hears the crowd;--he hears a breath
Say, "It is Christ of Nazareth!"
And calls, in tones of agony,
The thronging multitudes increase;
Blind Bartimeus, hold thy peace!
But still, above the noisy crowd,
The beggar's cry is shrill and loud;
Until they say, "He calleth thee!"
Then saith the Christ, as silent stands
The crowd, "What wilt thou at my hands?"
And he replies, "O give me light!
Rabbi, restore the blind man's sight.
And Jesus answers, '(GREEK)'
(GREEK)!
Ye that have eyes, yet cannot see,
In darkness and in misery,
Recall those mighty Voices Three,
(GREEK)!
(GREEK)!
(GREEK)!
Scheme | aaxxb ccddb eeffgG bbbGGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1100101 11011101 11111100 01011100 011001 11111 11010101 0111101 0111111 11011101 01111111 01011111 1010111 010101 1 11111101 01000100 1110101 1 1 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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