This is an analysis of the poem Ghosts. that begins with:
They look in with dim eyes
And faces sweet and sad,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccdeeedfgfghhhhiiihhhhhiiicjjjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011 110111 010111 1111 110111 010111 111001 1101 1101101 0101001 100111 0111 111111 111111 110111 1110101 111101 010101 0010101 1110 110101 010011 011101 1111 110101 101101 100101 10111 010101 010111 100101 0111 111111 100111 1010101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 873
- Average number of words per stanza: 181
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 words they, of, and are repeated.
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- summary of Ghosts.;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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