This is an analysis of the poem In An Annisquam Garden that begins with:
Old phantoms haunt it of the long ago;
Old ghosts of old-time lovers and of dreams:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbXccXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101000101 1101110101 0101011110 1101011101 0101101101 01001010101 1011001111 01001011100 1101110011 1101010111 0101101101 1111110101 0101011101 1101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; old, of, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words old, the are repeated.
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