This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost of Heaven that begins with:
Sleep to sleep through thirty years of night,
a child herself with child,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba aXcd XeXaf aghc bgcg iibgj cg gg eef ak g cbXg bk cg Xj cg facgbllm hm XXm ddXmbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,4,4,5,2,2,3,2,1,4,2,2,2,2,8,2,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101110001 010101 1111 111101 1111100 0111011 0101 100010100 10 1010110101010 11 0010011011010 101 1100111101 100110111 110110000010 1101101 001101010 0001001 001101 110111010 110010110 0101101 11101001 010101001 1011010101010 10001001 11011101 10100101010010 101010110 00101110 10011101 1101111 101110100 11101011001 110100111001011 0100101101011 010010011101 01101010011101 10101001 11010 101001 11001 10110110101010 1111011011011001 101000111010 0110001 0111110 0011011 000101110 1111011 010001 1111101 10101 0100100 11001 010001010 011011 111111 1011 1001111 010001111111 111 1110001 111000111 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; of, god, her, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, god, all are repeated.
The author used the same word outside at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines are is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase talk connects the lines.
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- summary of The Ghost of Heaven;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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