This is an analysis of the poem Haunted that begins with:
How restless are the dead whose silent feet will stray
In to our lone retreat or solitary way;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbdd eeffggddhhiijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110101110101 001101110101 010111110101 110101110101 1100101110101 110111010111 111111111101 110111111110 110101110101 011101011101 111111111111 11010111101 0101010110101 110101110101 111101010101 011101010101 110001110101 11101011101 010111110101 010111111101 111101110101 110011111100 110001111101 100101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, our, to, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, how are repeated.
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- summary of Haunted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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