Analysis of A Ghost
Why isn’t a ghost black
If its deeds were dirty and it died from that
And have no spirit, soul or body left intact
To give it life to predict or forecast
Then how does it appear to the eyes as white
And demands that the whole world stand still
In its presence and fear it
If it cannot be felt, touched
Hugged or loved
Then why would God
Release it to haunt and scare
The ones that tried to
Save it when it once lived among all of us
Wasn’t it once safe and free to approach
So it could be seen as it really was
A human being that doesn’t have
A reason to die and become a ghost
For everyone to notice them.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 11101001111 011101110101 111110111 11110110111 001101111 0110011 1110111 111 1111 0111101 01111 11111101111 111101101 1111111101 01010111 0101100101 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 11 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 238 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
About this poem
The thoughts of a person that have been isolated and rejected from the public and become an unknown subject make everyone wonder who and what this character could be and what could it possibly want. They will find time to acknowledge its presence.
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