This is an analysis of the poem The Only Ghost I Ever Saw that begins with:
The only ghost I ever saw
Was dressed in mechlin, --so;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacaXX Xdddbece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 110101 11110101 111101 01110101 110101 0101010 110101 1101010 010101 1101010 010101 1101110 010111 11011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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