This is an analysis of the poem Haunted that begins with:
Why will you haunt me unawares,
And walk into my sleep,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaa baaa acdc cdceXce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 110011 100100101 11101101 110101 11110101 0101001 010100101 010101 11010101 011101 11011111 101111001 111101 110111011 110101 111100101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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