This is an analysis of the poem The Spook that begins with:
Last night I dreamed that I was come again
Unto the house where my beloved dwells...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa abb aab ccbXabba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 1001110101 1010010011 1111010101 1101111101 1011111111 1111111100 1111001101 1101010111 1100010011 1111111101 1001011111 1111111101 1101010101 1011010101 1011110001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Spook;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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