Analysis of Gilbert and the Spiritual Ghost (2/10)




(Continued from 1/10)

But, the most important
thing in this fable
is that he also
could see many other ghosts
gathering and standing
behind those mourning people.

He also could recognize
many of those ghosts
as they were familiar to him.

Though he could see
those ghosts,
but could not hear
what they used to
whisper among themselves.

He never told this story
to his mother
(his father died when
he was a little child,
so he does not have any
memory of his father),
his younger sister
(whom he used to love the most),
his classmates,
or, any neighbors.

(Pure fiction.
Any similarity should be treated as mere coincidence.)


Scheme X XAXBXA XBX CBXXX CDXXCDDXXX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 101010 10110 11110 1110101 100010 0111010 110110 10111 11001011 1111 11 1111 1111 100101 1101110 1110 11011 110101 1111110 1001110 11010 1111101 11 11010 110 1001001110110100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 665
Words 145
Sentences 8
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 6, 3, 5, 10, 2
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted by hakikur on December 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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