This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost's Leavetaking that begins with:

Enter the chilly no-man's land of about
Five o'clock in the morning, the no-color void...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXX cdced fXfdd dghXX aecXg gXach Xddbe iiiXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010111001 101001001101 1010110010101 010010010110100 11110110101 110010101010 0111011101 0001000101010 010001110111 0010100010101 1001011010011 1010111110100 00100101010100 0111011101010 001010101101 111010101 0110100100101 11110111010 10110001100 0111110101 10011101010101 100110011 101111111 0001010001 101010111101 0100111101 0101010111 01010101010 011000111 01010011010 101010111 110110110101 1101110011 1101110011 0011110101 1101001111 1111110111 11110111101 11110111110 000110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, and, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Ghost's Leavetaking;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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