This is an analysis of the poem Grandeur Of Ghosts that begins with:
When I have heard small talk about great men
I climb to bed; light my two candles; then ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdcbXdbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111 1101111101 0101111101 110101111101 11101001101 11111101110 10110101001 110101111010 11111110110 111101011110 0101010111 11110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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.
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