This is an analysis of the poem Ghosts Of A Lunatic Asylum that begins with:
Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright
As the blank windows set in glaring brick, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cddc dede fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111 1011010101 1011000111 1101110111 1001010101 1111010111 10111111001 1101111101 1011010101 1101110001 1101111101 1001010101 0101010101 1001110011 1101010101 0100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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