This is an analysis of the poem The Haunted Oak that begins with:
Pray why are you so bare, so bare,
Oh, bough of the old oak-tree;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdedXfgfhbabiejeabkbdgjXddkdfeie likXcjejlkckhkekbafaebcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 1100111 1111110111 1010101 110110111 1111011 1110011111 010101 101100111 111101 111011111 1110111 110111101 11101001 101011101 1010111 10011111 100111 110011101 100101 111110101 1010111 1110111101 11111101 101111111 010111 111110100 10111010 1110100101 1110101 01100111 1011101 111101001 111111 1010111001 1111101 101110101 1010101 1010000101 1100010 11011111 110101 101011111 010011 11010111 10101011 1100100101 0101111 11011111 1011101 1110111111 00100101 110011111 110101 110010101 00100101 110011111 1100111 1110110101 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1100
- Average number of words per stanza: 216
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, and, they, my, of, rides are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Haunted Oak;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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