This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin that begins with:
O'er unreclaimed suburban clays
Some years ago were hobblin'... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcX ebebbXbX bfbfgggg XhXhbibi jbjbgigi gkgkjdjX ggggbdbd lklkmeme gXXXnknX bibioXoi XpkpgigiXbgbgpgpg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010000101 1001010 110010101 11101010 01101101 0111110 01010111 01110010 11110111 0101010 1111001001 11010010 100110101 0110100 110011101 1101010 101011101 1111010 110111001 1101010 11110111 1100010 11011101 0101010 110101000 1101010 01010101 0101010 100101010011 0101010 11010100 1101010 11010111 1100011 01010101 1101010 11100111 0101010 01111101 1101010 01010101 1101010 01010111 0100010 110110101 1101110 01010101 01011000 11010111 1101010 11010111 0111010 01101101 1111010 11110101 1101010 101011101 1111010 110010011 0101110 01110101 11110100 11110101 01010100 101110111 11011 1111100 1111010 11011101 0101010 11110101 11011000 01010101 01010100 01011101 11010100 11011101 0111010 01010101 11011100 11110101 0101010 11110100 1101010 11010001 0101010 11010101 01100010 110000101 1101110 11110101 1101010 01010111 11001010 11100101 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; more, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for, or are repeated.
The author used the same words the, for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin;
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