This is an analysis of the poem After A Journey that begins with:
I come to interview a Voiceless ghost;
Whither, O whither will its whim now draw me?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcddc aeaefggf fhfhieei bXbXXffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010101 10110001111 101110101 100110100011 110101110 101011101 011101 11111110110 111110110111 10010111111 1111101011 101011011111 101111101010 101101101 01111 1111011010 1111110111011 0011111101010 01010110111 101110001110 1011100011110 10101101010001 110101 110111111010 100011010101 010111011100 1101101001 101111010110100 11111111 010011111101 1110111 11001111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, have are repeated.
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