This is an analysis of the poem Spectral Lovers that begins with:
By night they haunted a thicket of April mist,
Out of that black ground suddenly come to birth, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcd ecceee affagg dhhdaa fiXfdd Xaiiaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100100101 10111100101 1101011011011 10111011100100 111100100101 111010 10010011010 1001011101 10010101101 011111001010 0100101110 101101 10010000101 10101010001 101001010001 1100100011001 000111110101 0111011 110010001010 100111001001 010111011101 11010101010 1101010101 100101 1110010101010 101110010010 10011001001010 001101010010 101100111010 11100010 1111010001 11010001111010 11110011010 10010111100 11110100101 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, his, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Spectral Lovers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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