This is an analysis of the poem Ghosts that begins with:
I to a crumpled cabin came
upon a hillside high,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXbX adadeXeb XaXafcfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 010111 10110101 110011 10100110011 10110101 11110110 0111010 01110001 1101001 01111111 110110 01100101 011100 11010101 111111 11111000 010111 11010101 011101 11111111 111111 101010101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Ghosts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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