This is an analysis of the poem The Old Ghost that begins with:
Over the water an old ghost strode
To a churchyard on the shore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdd efefcbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101111 0011101 110101011 010011 1111110 1100111 10101010 01001000 1110001001 100100111 10101001 1010011111 100101111 1010110110 11100101 1111011110 10111001 10100101100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The author used the same word over at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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