This is an analysis of the poem Ghosts that begins with:
There are ghosts in the room.
As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh ieie jeje
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111001 111101001101 111001 111111111111 101001 11011001001 001001 110011111101 101101 001001101001 101001 11111101101 101001 01101111011 101101 101101101001 101001 101101101101 111001 101001101101 111011 101111101001 111001 011001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, and, with, it, ghost are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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