This is an analysis of the poem Haunted that begins with:
The water, lapping, lapping in the reeds!
What stood beside it in the waning moon... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbacA XXbbXbXcccaacA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010001 1101000101 1100011101 0101110101 0101010001 100111 1101110001 010101 0111 1001110111 1101 0111 0101010001 110101 110101 0111010001 011101 0101110101 0101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Haunted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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