This is an analysis of the poem Ghost Stories that begins with:
When the hoot of the owl comes over the hill,
At twelve o'clock when the night is still,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbccdeedAa AaffbbghhgAa AaiihhbjjbAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10100111001 110110101 1110110111 1001001101 1100111101 0100101101 1110101111 1100100101 101001011001 0111011001 10100111001 110110101 10100111001 110110101 1110110101 011110111 1100111111 011100101 1110101111 0010110101 01001101101 01011001001 10100111001 110110101 10100111001 110110101 1010101101 101101101001 1100111111 0010110101 11111011001 11101100111 0011110101 1010111101 10100111001 1100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 532
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mill at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ghost Stories;
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- idea of the verse;
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