This is an analysis of the poem Ghost Of The Beautiful Past that begins with:
Ghost of the beautiful past, of the days long gone, of a queen, of a fair sweet woman.
Ghost with the passionate eyes, how proud, yet not too... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX bb cc aa XX bb XX bb dd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100100111001001110 1001001111111011011101010 1001110010110101101110 1111010110101101011011000 1011110111001110010 10100101110110010111001110 1111111111101110101000 11111110111110010101001001 011101010011111101100101101010 01010111111011111110110101110 10011101001001001001101011101110 11011100101011011111011101100101 11010110101010111010100110111001110 101101110011011110011101110111001101010 101011110110111001 111011101101101111111111101110010100011100 111111101101001010 11111010011111110100111110011110 110101011011111001010 110101001111111110110100110101101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 119 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 23
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, she, leaves, but, i, it, her, all, and, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ghost, why, oh, read are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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