This is an analysis of the poem The War Of The Ghosts that begins with:
Three Ghosts that haunt me have I,
Three Ghosts in my soul that fight,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB defefagahiii jffXXkXklgjgldXfafa gafaXaha ABCBaigidbXbXaXaiccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,19,8,20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 1101111 1101011 11111111 01101101 11001011 0101101 101001111 101101001 11111101 11011010 11001011 101101001 11001101 11001101 1111001 1110110 110101 11100101 0101111 101001110 11011111 111101101 11100101 111001001 111001101 111011010 0101001 11011001 111101001 1111001 11110111 11101101 1110101 101001001 11001011 11011001 101001101 00100111 101001001 11011001 11001011 11010011 1111111 1101111 1101011 11111111 110011001 1111001 11001101 1111011 101011011 101011111 11101011 0101101 111011110 01011001 101010010 11010011 11101001 101001010 101111011 001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 420
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; three, ghosts, that, and, i, of, on, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words three, and, i are repeated.
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