This is an analysis of the poem Haunted that begins with:
Haunted? Ay, in a social way
By a body of ghosts in dread array;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb dddbeeeb fffghhhg aaaXiiid ggggjjjg kkkXdddX dXdXdddX gggXgggb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 1010010101 110100101 0101110 111111101 1010100101 0010110101 101011010 11100101 101101111 10110111 010010100 11100101 01110111 111110101 011010100 111110111 0010111011 0010100111 10101010 11011111 111111101 0110000100 0111010 11100101 10111111 11100110101 1101010 1010011111 0010011101 101001000101 0111010 110100101 0101100101 1110010111 1111010 110100111 1110100101 01100100101 11101010 110101101 0010101001 0110111101 1110110100 01011101 011100101 01011101 11101011 10100111 1010001010 010010101 1101110 01010101 110111111 0100000101 011010100 11011101 1010111111 111010101 11011010 11101001101 1010100111 1010010111 11100010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, its, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, ghosts, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Haunted;
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- idea of the verse;
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