This is an analysis of the poem Halloween that begins with:

Sweep up the flure, Janet;
Put on anither peat....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaX bXXX aXaX acac XXaX XdXX Xebe XfXX geae hehe gfXf gXfd XaXX dXfe XXef XXXe Xigi bXXX gXgX aXaX biXX XXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110 111001 0011010110 110111 001100111 10100110 101011101 1101101 101100110 110111 1101110101 1100101 101100110 1101010 101001010 11101110 11100101 1101111 111101110 1110001 11011001 1111101 110011101 011101 01110111 110101 011111101 11111 11011001 1011101 1110011011 110111 010110101 111111 101101110 1100111 11101010010 1101001 1011011010 11111110 1011000101 1110101 111100101 0110101 11111101 110101 1101110101 110111 1011111101 0111001 101111101 1011111 101111011 0101111 110110101 11110101 0111001011 110101 10111111 1100111 1101110111 101100 111101011110 101011001 1100101101 1100111 1011101001 10110101 110110111 11010001 110101101 110111 111011101 110111 101111101 11101001 1110110111 10010100 0101101001 110110 11010101 1111101 110011111 1011111 111010011 110101 10110101101 10110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, she, ye, and, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same words whan, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wa' is repeated).

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  • summary of Halloween;
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