This is an analysis of Haunted by Ina D. Coolbrith.

The water, lapping, lapping in the reeds!
What stood beside it in the waning moon…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbacA XXbbXbXcccaacA
  • Stanza lengths: 5,14,
  • Metre: 0101010001 1101000101 1100011101 0101110101 0101010001 100111 1101110001 010101 0111 1001110111 1101 0111 0101010001 110101 110101 0111010001 011101 0101110101 0101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 19

Anaphora

the, with