This is an analysis of the poem The Haunted Ship that begins with:
Houses have ghosts, they say; well like enough they may have -
Folks that have lived within their walls in the bygone days;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXc d bdbdefef XgXghihi hXhbcjXcXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111101111 1111011100111 111111111010111 11110110101111 10110110111010 1101110111 1101110011 010 01101 111100101110 1001111101101 10111010010010 111101110111 11101110110011 01100111101 1011110111001 101101100011 01011011010010 01101101011011 1101111001111010 011001010101 11001001111110 1111111011 1101100010110 001100101001 1110111001110 101101001111 100100101101110 1011010101101 11111010110 10011101101101 10011110011 010 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; have, they, their, and, to, he, of are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Haunted Ship;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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