This is an analysis of the poem The Ghosts' High Noon that begins with:
When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls, and the bat in the
moonlight flies,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaabb cbbbXbcb aXXXXbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110010110100 111 1101110011100111 1010110111111 101 10010101100111 101001110011011 1101 01111100111010 11 101110011010010111 1 110101101010011 1 1111001101111 11 00101101011010110 10 1010100111110 1001 110111101010011 1
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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