This is an analysis of the poem Books And Thoughts that begins with:
Old ghosts that death forgot to ferry
Across the Lethe of the years -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccccdcdcXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111101010 0101000 11111111 111011110 101101100 11110101 11110101 101010101 1101101011 10010111 110111111 110100101 01010111 101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Books And Thoughts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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