This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost, that begins with:
There stands a City,-- neither large nor small,
Its air and situation sweet and pretty; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcc dededecc fefefeee bgbdbdgg hahahagg ihihihjX hkhkhlhX mjmbmbaa abaXabcc lflflfnn bobojoee ibibijpp ccccccdX gegXgeXd XXhXhaXX fcfcfcbj ejeXnjdd aqaqaqbb fnfnfnhX fhXhXhjj cfcfcfgg dfXfXfcc cqcqqcff cgcggcff qcqccqaa qXqcqcff XprpprcX hnhnnXqq dnh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 01110101110 0101010011 10010011110 1001011111 01111011010 01110100001 11010101000 0101010101 11110101010 1101010101 111111010010 11110110001 1011001010 11110101010 11010101010 0101011011 1011101000010 1101000101 01111101010 0101010101 10110000010 010000111010 01110101110 011110101010 11011101010 01010011110 01110101010 1101000110 01011111110 0111011101 1101000001 10110101010 11010100111 01110101010 00111100010 01010011010 11110001110 011111010100 011101010100 11010101001 10010100010 1101010001 10110110010 1100010111 11111011010 011111011101 110111011000 11010111010 11111111110 11010101010 11111101010 11011011111 01010111011 01010111010 11110101010 10111111101 11001110111 0101111101 10100101010 1101110001 111110101110 01111101110 110101101010 11110011010 110110010100 10100111110 010100011000 01010111010 110111010100 0011110101 1111010101 1011110101 0011010111 1100110101 0101001111 1101010101 1101011101 1100111101 1101010101 111101000100 100101010010 100111110100 101011101010 010101110101 01011111010 11010111110 11010011010 01010101010 11110101010 10110101010 10010011110 110010111010 11110110111 11010101110 01110101010 0101010101 11110101011 1101011101 11111111011 1001110001 1100100100111 1011010101 0101010100110 1111011101 11010101110 01010010101 11110001010 1001001101 110101111010 01001011000 111001011010 111001111 10010101001 0111110101 1111001101 0101010101 0111011101 0101010101 1111010011 1111110111 01011111010 1100110101 01011101110 1101010101 11110011110 10010101010 11111101111 10011101010 1000011101 11110101010 1111001101 110100011011 1101110001 1111010101 1101010001 1101010100 1111010101 11011101001 1101010101 0101001001 1101010111 1101001011010 01111101010 1101010111 1101110001 1101010101 11011111101 1111010101 1111110101 11010001011 11111111010 11011101010 01000100010 11011110000 11010000110 11111111000 1110010010010 01011010101 1101011111 1101010101 1101111111 11001000111 1111010111 1101011101 010111111 100101001010 110001010010 11110001010 1001010101 01101001100 1101010011 10010101000 11010110101 1101110101 1100011101 1111010001 0001011101 10110101001 0111010001 1101110101 0101010111 0111010101 1101010101 1111011101 1100010101 1110010001 10101000101 11001010101 1101011101 1001000101 110101110001 01001010101 101001010111 111110101 1110001101 1111000111 0110010101 0111001001 1111010111 1100010111 0101110110 0011010101 01010010001 0111110101 1001111101 0110110001 1001000111 11111110010 1111111101 1001011101 1101010101 01101111111 1011010101 1101010101 11111100010 11010010111 1101110001 110110011101 0101000101 1011111111 11011010111 01111101111 11010101110 10110101010 0101010001 11010111010 11110010111 11011100010 1111011101 1101110101 1101010101 11010101001 0100011101 1101000101 1001110101 11110101011 1101001001 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 01100100101 11110010001 0011110111 01100011001 010101110001 010101011 1101100101 1101000101 11010000101 0101011101 10001111101 11000101010 110011101110 01010010101 1111010111 01011100100 01010101100 0111010101 0101010101 1101010111 11111100101 0101011111 1001111101 11010010001 1101010101 1111010101 1011000101 1111110001 00101010101 0101111101 1101000111 110101101 0101111101 1101111101 0111110101 0101110111 1101110101 10010111101 1001010101 1101011111 1101010101 11010111101 1101110111 1111011101 0101011111 11010101001 0101010101 1111011101 11001010101 1101100101 1111000101 11011101010 110101010010 1101010101 1011110101 1101110101 0110110111 1111000101 1101011111 11001101101 110101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 38
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 304
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, his, of, i, in, ', to, he, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whether, his, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Ghost,;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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