This is an analysis of the poem The Kind Ghosts that begins with:
She sleeps on soft, last breaths; but no ghost looms
Out of the stillness of her palace wall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba Xba bab bXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 1001000101 0101111111 1101010111 11001010101 1111010111 0111111101 1011100101 1101010111 1110010011 1101001100 1110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, on, her, their are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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