This is an analysis of the poem When Spirits Speak Of Life that begins with:
Three spirits sit upon a low stone wall placed on the top of a hill. Their figures are gray, with human outlines, and their faces are those of a boy,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a BXc Bcdefgg Bcfhigedegj BjeebbeekhXj Bbeebkbdbga Baaiahcl BgbdXBibll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,7,11,12,11,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010111110100111011010111110110010101111101010100100101101001100010110100 110 11101 11010 1010 010100 11100101 10110010 111110 010101 1001100 110 01010100 00101010 111010 0010101001 11000101 1001010 11010101 01001100 1100010101 1001110 110 111010010 01001001100 01101010011 001001011 0101001111 110101001 010101 10100110 100011 1001111001 1010110 1010 110101 1010010010 01101011 0101010001 01001001 1100100111 1101001001 10111 0101000100 1110101001 110 1111010 0010111 0110101 11000101 11010001 01001000100 10010100010 110 1111010 100110001 1100010001 1010 010101011 01001100010 111001 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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, of, wall are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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