This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost Of Roger Casement that begins with:
O WHAT has made that sudden noise?
What on the threshold stands?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcdcXC ebfbeeXeXC XgXghbhdXC XfgfceXeXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 110111 01010101 1110111 1001011 100111 11110100 110011 01010100 010101 11111100 011101 01011101 111101 10101010 111111 01010100 010101 01010100 010101 11110100 111111 11001101 1100101 11010100 111111 11110101 001100 01010100 010101 11010101 1101001 11011111 010101 11001011 111101 110101101 111101 01010100 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; roar is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words upon, and, draw are repeated.
The author used the same word john at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word door at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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