This is an analysis of the poem The Ghoul And The Seraph that begins with:
Scene: a cemetery, by moonlight. The Ghoul emerges from the shade of a cypress, and sings.
The Song...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a B BcbcB XdadX EaeaE f X fgaXafhi XhXacXaa F jjagXh Xajkhl X hhaiXgX aiXXmaXch Xaakmc F j XjXaXjkjc anjanXkjj Xakacbkik jfaiXiXal cdaiaiXka jaa b B aa aaJj Xffa JJXjiijJJ
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,5,5,5,1,1,8,8,1,6,6,1,7,9,6,1,1,9,9,9,9,9,3,1,1,2,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101011101010001001011 01 01000101 01011101 01010111 11110101 01000101 1010110000 01010111 01010101 11010101 010110000 01011101 01010101 01110001 01110101 01011101 010010010111011001110011110111011001 010 1100010101 1100010111 010101001 11010011110 1111010001 1101110011 01001010111 100110111 01010000101 1100010111 1101110100 0101110111 1101001001 1101110100 1011110001 1001010011 01 1111111101 0111010101 1101110101 0101010101 111101100 0111111100 1101010111 1100010111 0111011101 010011101 1101010101 01010010101 010 1101100111 01011001001 1101010101 1111011101 0101111100 1101010111 0100010101 1101010010 110111110010 11011000110 01111100110 0101011100 1011010110 0101010100 11101010001 01010010011 0101011000 0101011111 101100101 1001111001 1110010100 01010011001 01 0101110101 01001011111 0110110011 0111110101 1101010101 1011110101 1101010001 0100010101 1011011101 11110100101 1111010101 1101010101 1110010001 0101110101 1001111111 1101011100 01011100101 1101010101 0100100111 011001101 111101101 11011101001 11110101010 1111010101 1001010110 1111010101 0101010001 1100110101 1001010101 0101001100 10110101011 1111110100 1101010100 1101110111 01010101010 1001011101 10100101 1100111101 0101010101 010101001 1111010101 11111101010 0101011101 01011101001 1101010001 11110000101 0101010111 0101011100 1101000101 011011010110110 01 11011101 01011001 11010101 10010101 10111101 010010111 11110111 01010101 01011101 11111111 10111101 010010111 10010110 11011011 10010111 1001011 10111101 010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 141
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, i, and, wrought are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, to, through are repeated.
The author used the same words the, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word lord at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase change connects the lines.
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