This is an analysis of the poem A Florida Ghost. that begins with:
Down mildest shores of milk-white sand,
By cape and fair Floridian bay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcdX bebe dfXX adad abaX gXga hXhb iXcX ejej gaXa XXcb kXkl fdfd adad fifi fafa lala abab aXai XbhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 111101001 11001010111 101111 11111101 10110101 1101110101 011100 01111111 01110101 1111011101 101101 11010101 01010011 01110111100 011101 01010101 11111101 10011000101 111101 11011101 11110101 1101001101 100100 11001111 010111100 0101110011 011101 01111101 01111000 1101010111 011101 11011111 0010011 110110100101 010101 10111000 01010101 0111000101 011011 100010001 111111 1101010111 111101 101110111 11010100 11101001 111101 100010111 0101000 1111110101 110101 101110101 11011100 0101101001 010111 1000010101 11110111 1111011111 101101 101110101 1101000111 1111111111 110101 101110101 11010101 1101111111 110111 101111101 11110101 1001011101 100101 101011100 111111001 1111110111 111101 101111011 11010110 1111110111 100101 101111000 0100101 1111111101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, an', that, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of A Florida Ghost.;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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