This is an analysis of the poem In A/C With Ghosts that begins with:

You can shuffle and scuffle and scold,
You can rattle the knockers and knobs, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eebeXfbfggXg XeeebhbhXcbchheh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011011 111001011 11001101001 101001001 111101001 001001001 11111001011 1011111 10001010001 11101010101 11101000101010 10001000111 111010100111 10101010101 101110101010 1010101010101 10101110111 10101000111 1010111010101110 101010101111101 1110011010 111001001 111001101111 01001001 1110110110 11001001 111010010010 11111011 1001000101011011 010010110110 01011111 10111101 01101011 11101111001 111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, double, they, for, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, can, down, they, for, the are repeated.

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  • summary of In A/C With Ghosts;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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