This is an analysis of the poem A Ghost At The Dancing that begins with:
A WIND-SWEPT tulip-bed--a colored cloud
Of butterflies careering in the air-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXefbaXX afbabX XdXaXX cXgghX behfXX bXcaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 0101010001 0101010101 1101011101 1011110101 1010 1111010101 01011000101 1001111011 1111111101 10001001101 1010 1011111111 1110110111 1011010101 1001011101 1111010101 1010 1111101111 1111000101 11111101010 1001110111 10111101010 1010 1111111111 11110111011 1011110101 1101110101 11001110101 1010 1011011111 11011110101 1101111111 11010011101 1101010101 1010 1111110111 11111101110 10111111111 1011111101 1110110101 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 42
- 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, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word amiel at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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