This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost Of Goshen that begins with:
Through Goshen Hollow, where hemlocks grow,
Where rushing rills, with flash and flow, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcccb ddefffe ggbhhhb iieaaXe ggjcccj kkXhhhi lliccci mmjcccj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101101 11010111 11001110 111111011 011100101 010101101 10111010 1110011111 0110011111 1111011 10110111 1011101001 111100001 01001111 111100101 110100101 111001110 0111001001 10111101 011110111 101001110 111100101 11010111 01010101 110010101 110110101 010111101 11011011 11001101 010011101 01001010 111000101 1101100101 1100100101 11111010 11010101 01110101 1101110 110100101 010101101 11011101 01011010 110101101 011110101 10111010 111101111 110010101 011100111 11111110 0111101001 00100111101 1111110 110111101 001110101 1100111111 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; where, in, and, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'go is repeated.
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