This is an analysis of the poem Three Ghosts that begins with:
THREE tailors of Tooley Street wrote: We, the People.
The names are forgotten. It is a joke in ghosts....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX XXX bbXXA XXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010111010 011010000101 1011001101011 11010111011 1010 1101011010110 1111001001010 11111100100 010111011110 010 10100010011010 000101101111 010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 566
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Three Ghosts;
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- idea of the verse;
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