This is an analysis of the poem What The Ghost Of The Gambler Said that begins with:

Where now the huts are empty,
Where never a camp-fire glows, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcccbdddXcac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 11001101 010101 010101 11011101 0100111 101110101 111101 010010101 011101 11111111 111001 01110101 110010 11110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 504
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.

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  • summary of What The Ghost Of The Gambler Said;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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