This is an analysis of the poem The Homeless Ghost that begins with:
Still flowed the music, flowed the wine.
The youth in silence went;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab cbcbcb dedede afafafaf ghghgh ibibib ababab fififi jfjfjf iaiaia gXgigX gagaga cbcbcb Xbebeb Xbibib gggggX kgkgkg alkiXlaX kkkkkk jajaja bkbkbk mememe ikikik ninini bnbnbn gggggg bbbbbb adaXad bnbnbn lXXklk afafaf bebXbe gkgXgk ibibibXababab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,8,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,8,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101 11010111 010111 11010101 0101010 11111101 111111 11011001 111001 101110101 110101 11110101 010001 01010101 110101 101010101 1010101 110111101 1110001 101110101 1010100 101010101 100111 1010100101 1110101 011110001 010101 01010101 1011101 111111101 011001 11011101 001001001 010101101 0101101 110101001 00110101 011101011 0101111 11010101 1011111 1011101101 1110101 101111111 1010101 101111111 10100101 101111111 0111001 11111001001 10100101 1111110101 0100101 011110101 111101 101111111 111101 11111101 0010101 1010110101 10110101 111111111 11101010 01111111 110111 0110110111 11101010 0110101101 1110101 111101111 1101001 1011101101 01011101 111111111 0100101 11100100101 1110101 111011111 10110111 1101001011 010101 00100100111 1010111 110110101 1110111 11110111 1011101 0011110101 1101101101 1011101101 1100111 111111111 1011001 11011101 111111 0111100101 11111110 110111111 1011101 011110101 10101001 010100101 1011101 11111101 1111101 111011 1 10 1111101 011110101 1101101 1111100101 1100111 1111111001 01011111 1111111001 1111001 11111101 101111 0010010011 11100101 110011111 101011001 111111101 0111001 1100110101 1110101 1110110101 00100101 1100101001 10111001 01101101101 00101101 011100101 1101101 1100101101 100101 0101001001 010101 11100111111 010010 11110001 11011011 101110101 1010111 10101011101 1111001 110011001 10101011 010100101 0010101 010010101 1110101 1110101101 100101 11010101 1010101 010011101 1011101 1101001001 0001001 111110111 10110111 110011111 110111 11110101 110111 1111110101 1011101 101110101 1110111 1100100101 1110111 11010111 1110101 1100101111 1010101 110100101 1110110 1011101000 100111 1011101111 1010111 1010100101 11001001 1011111111 1100111 1110101101 0010101 1110100111 10100111 11100100101 11110010 01100100101 1110111 1111100101 110101 10100110111 1011100 110011111 11100111 111111111 1111101 111010111 1111101 110110111 1110101 10110101 010101 11111101 011101 11111111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 214
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; he, her, she, i, and, with, it, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, i, she are repeated.
The author used the same words he, 'ah, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ghost at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase cold connects the lines.
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- summary of The Homeless Ghost;
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