This is an analysis of the poem Ghost That Wouldn'T Lie Still that begins with:
Once have we bashed him on the head;
Twice have we stabbed him deep;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXccX dedefgffX dhdhigiiX fefXjgXjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 111111 11111111 111011 1110101 010110 11000101 11011101 1101000 11111101 110101 11111111 000101 11010101 111001 11111111 11110001 0101000 110001011 010111 11110001 011011 01011101 110111 11110101 11110101 1011000 01111111 110101 11000101 11010 11011111 110111 01010100 11010101 1101000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, him, have, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his are repeated.
The author used the same word we've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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