This is an analysis of the poem Haunted Chambers that begins with:
The lamp-lit page is turned, the dream forgotten;
The music changes tone, you wake, remember ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcb aXded Xfgcg feehe idjhj dXkbk lliaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110101010 01010111010 11110111010 01110110110 11101111110 10111100111 10110111010 01110110101 111101001010 11010100111 0111110101 1101000111 1101001101 11010111010 1101001 11011001111 11010101110 10101111101 11110111011 01110110101 10010101101 1101111111 01010100101 100011101011 10111111 111100100110 01010011101 111101000101 11110111010 110111 11011111011 10011111011 1101110011 11110101010 1101110110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; music, and, you, of, we, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, through, we, they are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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