This is an analysis of The Ghost's Story by Duncan Campbell Scott.
All my life long I heard the step
Of some one I would know,…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb ddXd eefe XaXa fgcg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111101 011111 11000111 110111 01111111 011111 01010111 110101 11110111 110111 11100001 1000111 01000100 111101 11110100 010001 11010101 111101 11010111 010011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
loneliness
Anaphora
a