This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost that begins with:
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide,
Came a ghost, and for a moment walked in silence by my side -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXaX ccddaA eeffaA gghhaA bbaaaA hhaaaX ddeeaa aXahhaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111100010101 101110101010111 111111101010101 111110100010100 101110101110101 111111100010101 111010101111101 111010100010101 101010101011101 111011100010001 1010011101110101 111110100010001 10100010111001 101111000010001 101011111010111 111000111011101 101111101110101 111110101010001 101010101100101 101010111110001 1011101010001101 100011101110111 101011101110101 111110100010001 101010101110111 101010101011111 1010101010101001 101000101011011 101111101110101 111110101010001 101011100011101 111011101010111 101000100010111 101110111111111 101010101110101 111111100010001 111110100111101 101011000010111 1110111010111001 1110111010100011 111010101010101 111110111110001 111010101010111 11111110 0010111 101110100110101 101111100011101 1010100101110101 101111100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, of, then, his, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word then is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word world at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Ghost;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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