This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost that begins with:
Just where the field becomes the wood
I thought I saw again... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb d efe ag ha gca c Xaaa Xacae cac if ie cbX b hdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,2,2,3,1,4,5,3,2,2,3,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 111101 01010111 101101 01110111 111101 11010111 110100 01010101 111100 110110101 110101 101010100 1010111 11011111 111101 11010101 110011 01011101 010101 11011010 111101 11110111 110101 11010011 111101 11111101 110111 11111101 111101 10110101 010110 10110101 011101 11011101 111111 11010101 111011 11010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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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- summary of The Ghost;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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