This is an analysis of The Ghost That Jim Saw by Francis Bret Harte.
Why, as to that, said the engineer,
Ghosts ain't things we are apt to fear;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccc ddeefff ggccXXX hhffaaX ggaaggg XXhhiii ggeXccc bbhhjjj
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 110110101 11111101 10110101 11011101 1111 11001 111111011 101110111 011110101 11011111 101010111 101101 1101 111100111 11010101 111110111 1010100101 10100101 1111 1111 111100111 01011111 111101111 100110101 11111101 1111 1111 010111110 1101001011 111100111 110111101 110110111 1101 1111 01111111 111100111 1111111111 10111101 11110101 1111 11111 011110111 11110111 101011101 1010111111 010101100 11111 11101 011011111 1110001111 1011011111 11111111 111111101 1011 1001 1111101111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
to, i
Anaphora
and
