This is an analysis of the poem Sweet William's Ghost that begins with:
There came a ghost to Margaret's door,
With many a grievous grone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa bacD bacD EFEF EXga gabh EFEF EXih ifef iece afeX cecb eeee Xfef iaea fiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 0100101 11110101 110111 0011010 111101 1111110 010111 1111010 111101 1111110 010111 11101110 111101 11111110 111001 11111101 111101 111101110 111111 011101110 111101 11111101 110101 11101110 111101 11111110 111001 11111101 111101 11110111 111001 111100011 010101 10011110 110101 11101011 110101 11111110 111101 111100101 010101 11011101 011101 0110111110 1101111 110111110 011111 11111110 111111 11111110 1100111 11110111 111101 11111110 110101 11010101 100101 100000101 110101 11110111 010101 11011101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; my, thy, margret, and, i, me, any, room, at, your, there's, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, there's are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word home at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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