Analysis of Haunted

Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)



Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine,
Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing
And lay ghost hands on everything,
But leave the noonday's warm sunshine
To living lads for mirth and wine.

I met you suddenly down the street,
Strangers assume your phantom faces,
You grin at me from daylight places,
Dead, long dead, I'm ashamed to greet
Dead men down the morning street.


Scheme ABBAA CDDCC
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 11111111 11010101 0111110 110111 11011101 111100101 100111010 11111110 11110111 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 372
Words 68
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 148
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, novelist and soldier in World War One. more…

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