This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost - Book I that begins with:

With eager search to dart the soul,
Curiously vain, from pole to pole,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeXffggbbffffhXiibbccjjhhbbiXkkaahhddkkccffbbaafbhhXjXbllaahhmmaaiinnkkggllbbmmeemmeemmkkllaabbiikkXahhccbbkkeellkkllaahhkkkkkkhhbXbbXeaahhhhiifXiibbkkffhhiiXXiieekkbbddhhllhhcckkiiiihhhhooggeeffccffggcckkppbbkknnXqkkffkkddiikkhhbbddkkkkkkkkiikkiih
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 526,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 100010101 100101001 001010010 11011011 010011101 11010111 110101001 10011100 10011100 000101111 11111101 1100111001 01010001 11001101 11010001 01110100 01011101 11011101 11000101 101111011 01010110 11010111 11010101 110101110 110100010 11110001 111110001 11011101 11010101 11111101 110110011 11101101 11001101 01001010 1111011000 001010111 11000101 1111101 11011101 111111010 010101010 10011111 10010111 1111101 11001111 11010101 11011101 101100101 11110101 010111010 010100110 11010101 11010101 01010110 11010100 00110101 11110001 100101011 0110101 11001000 101101110 11000101 11010111 110111101 01011101 01001111 101010101 010110011 11110011 11111111 110111000 01010101 01010011 100100101 10010101 110011001 01010001 100100010 110111010 11010111 01010101 11010101 01010101 01000111 10110111 01110111 11011101 11001101 11010101 11001111 1011111 110011101 11110101 01010111 01010011 10110101 10001101 010111001 11110000 11110111 11010101 10010101 11010001 10011101 01010101 01000101 110011111 00011111 000100111 10010111 11010001 10110101 110010101 10010101 110010111 10110111 01010101 110100101 10110001 101101010 110101010 101100111 01010101 11111101 11011101 01110011 01110111 110101010 110011010 10101101 01010101 11110111 11000101 11010001 11010101 110101110 110100010 01010100 100100101 11001000 111100101 111100101 11010001 111100010 010011110 01010101 01010111 11011101 01011111 01011101 10111100 01000111 01010111 011100111 110100101 110010001 11110101 11100111 01010100 11010011 01010001 10011111 11010100 11110111 00110111 010101001 11111101 01011111 11011111 11111101 11110101 01010110 010100001 01010101 01011101 11111111 11111111 010011111 10011101 01010111 01110111 10010111 01000111 01010101 1100101001 010101010 111111010 01010101 11001101 010000101 11010101 011100010 100101010 110100101 01010101 01010101 010010001 0100111 01011101 01011111 1111001 01010101 11110001 01100101 10010101 110010111 01010001 11010101 11000101 10110111 11110101 11011101 11010001 01010111 01010111 10110111 10110101 11110111 00010101 11011110 11110101 10110111 01110111 10011101 110110101 11011101 01011101 01011111 01011101 11010101 1100010 11000101 01000101 10110101 11110101 110111010 110101010 111100101 11010011 11010111 11011101 11010111 1011000001 110111001 10001101 110100101 11110101 11011101 101100011 10111101 01001101 101000010 011101010 01010101 01010111 10100011 11001101 10011101 00110101 100101000 010001010 11010101 10010101 10010100 11010101 110101011 010111010 10011111 01110101 10110101 11010111 10110111 11010111 10010001 11111101 11010101 11010101 11100101 01010001 11011101 01011101 11110101 11110101 11010001 11010111 010110111 01111011 01011101 01010001 110010001 11110101 11100101 01011101 11010101 10110011 11110011 10011111 11111101 11010110 01011101 11010101 11110101 01011101 01110110 11011101 11110101 01100101 11110101 01000111 11010101 10110111 111101001 01010101 11111111 10110101 11010100 10010101 01011101 11010101 01011111 10111101 11110101 11011111 10010101 11100001 10010101 01010100 010011101 11110111 00110101 01011101 01000111 11110011 11110111 010010111 11011101 11110001 010111010 111101110 11100101 110010101 10010101 11011111 10110111 01000101 11010111 10010101 11010101 01010101 10011001010 010100110 010100111 101011001 11010111 01010001 1100101010 010101010 11111111 11110101 11110001 01011001 11110101 01010100 11011001 10111101 11010111 10010111 10010001 01011101 110011101 110100001 11011001 11100101 10110101 11111111 01110101 01010001 11011101 01110101 10010101 11110101 01010101 01110111 10110011 11110101 11000111 11010100 10110101 11010101 01010101 11011111 11010111 01000101 110010101 01010100 10011001 11110111 11110111 11111111 11010001 11010111 10010101 11110101 11010101 11011101 11000101 01010101 11010101 01000101 11000101 11111101 11011101 10111111 110011101 110101000 11110101 11110101 100100110 010101010 01010101 11010001 11110101 01011111 11110001 11110111 11101101 11111100 11110101 110101000 11010101 01010101 10010101 01000101 10111101 01001001 01010101 01011101 110111001 11010111 01010111 110101001 111100101 11010001 10011101 100100101 11000101 011010101 10110011 11010101 10010001 10110011 01010111 01010001 11001101 11110011 01010111 11111001 01010101 10010101 11010011 010010111 10010111 01010101 010000101 11010101 11010011 01010111 01010101 11110011 11010011 11010111 10011001 01011101 100010101 11110011 100010101 11010101 100100010 110011101 11010001 11010101 010100101 01010101 01010111 11110101 11000111 11111101 101111100 01010011 01010101 11010101 01110101 11110011 11010001 01010101 111100101 11001101 11010001 11110101 01100101 11010111 110101010 010001010 10010111 10010001 11000101 11010111 11010111 01010101 11110001 11011101 11110101 10010101 11010101 11110101 11110101 11011111 10100101 11010001 111101111 01000101 10110100 11000111 10110101 01110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 18284
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3239
  • Amount of lines: 526
  • 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; to, as, of, or, in, who, another, and, each, which are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words could, in, would, where, who, another, as, to, the, a are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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  • summary of The Ghost - Book I;
  • central theme;
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