This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of The Wailing Ghost that begins with:

As I between the dusk and dark
Walked down by Hampton Towers,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabacdedefgfeeae chbhXiXibceXahfhgXXX dXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,20,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 1111010 11010101 0010010 11011101 010101 11110101 110001 11010111 010101 11010101 010101 111101101 011101 11110101 111101 01010111 010101 00110111 010101 11111101 0101010 111100101 0101010 11010101 111101 01110101 1111000 01010101 110001 11011111 010101 11111111 1101110 11111101 0101110 11011011 101101 01010101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 401
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of A Ballad Of The Wailing Ghost;
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  • history of its creation;
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