This is an analysis of the poem The Little Ghost that begins with:
I knew her for a little ghost
That in my garden walked;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa aXaX abab cdcd aeae fdfd dgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 101101 0101000110 101111 11101101 11011100 11010111 110111 10110101 101111 01110111 011101 11010111 1111001 11101101 111101 110111001 010101 1111000111 010001 11011101 010101 11011101 011101 11010101 100101 1100010111 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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, she, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, by are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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