This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost Of Deacon Brown that begins with:

In a backwoods town
Lived Deacon Brown,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbb bbdeedbb dddabbdda ffeeeee aabggXXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,9,7,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00111 1101 1110101 11111 11111 0010101 110010101 1101 1101 10101100 1101 101011 10111110 01011111 11111111 11111101 01010001 01001101 110101 11010101 001011101 10101 11111 1010101 0101 0111 1010011 0101 1111 0110101 110110101 1101 1101 11110110 1111 10101 10101010 1010111 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; gold, he, and are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word 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 gold, glee are repeated).

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  • summary of The Ghost Of Deacon Brown;
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