This is an analysis of the poem Shakespeare's Ghost - A Parody that begins with:
I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,--
Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be seen....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXddefXeXaXdXbXaXcXbXXXXXXXcXXXXeXXXXXfXbXfXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101110010010 1011011101001 1101101001 010100 10010011100001 1101001010011010 10111011001101 10110010010111110 1001001000101100 100110011010010 110100111110110 10101101010110110 110110111000010 1011101101111110 11110011111110 10001001001011111 110110110110010 100111011010110 100110111111010 10011010011011010 100101110010110 10101011011010110 1110101101010010 1011100100101010 10010101100100 100111111010110 110100110010110 10111011010011111 111001011010110 101010011110 110010 101001101100100 10101111111101010 110101111011110 1011110110110110 1011111000100100 1011101010011010 1101111101011010 1011001110010010 111011111111100 101010111110110 1001101001101110 11010110110010010 100100110010010 101111111010010 110111110010110 1001001110100100 11101110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3122
- Average number of words per stanza: 509
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, and, what, they, can are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.
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- summary of Shakespeare's Ghost - A Parody;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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