This is an analysis of The Ghost Of Deacon Brown by James Weldon Johnson.
In a backwoods town
Lived Deacon Brown,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabccbb bbdeedbb dddabbdda ffeeeee aabggXXdd
- Stanza lengths: 7,8,9,7,9,
- Metre: 00111 1101 1110101 11111 11111 0010101 110010101 1101 1101 10101100 1101 101011 10111110 01011111 11111111 11111101 01010001 01001101 110101 11010101 001011101 10101 11111 1010101 0101 0111 1010011 0101 1111 0110101 110110101 1101 1101 11110110 1111 10101 10101010 1010111 1010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
gold, he, and
Anaphora
a
Epiphora
gold, glee
