This is an analysis of the poem Fragment Of A Ghost Story that begins with:
A shovel of his ashes took
From the hearth's obscurest nook,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000101 0011001 100100111 101101110 1110101110 111101 110100101 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; her is repeated.
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