This is an analysis of the poem The Haunter that begins with:
He does not think that I haunt here nightly:
How shall I let him know... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabaXX bacababX cacababX babadadX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111110 111111 11001011100 110101 1011001101 111101 1101001011 1010100 1111010110 111111 1111010010 101101 111111101 111101 101111010 111100 1101001010 10101 10111110 10111 001101010101 110111 11100100101 1111100 1001011111 10111 0111111011 100111 10001111110 111111 111101110 1011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, he, where are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, where are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thereto at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Haunter;
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