This is an analysis of the poem Haunted that begins with:
Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine,
Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaa cddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11010111 11111101 11010111 01011111 111100101 100111010 111101110 11100101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Haunted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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