Analysis of Blithe Spirit
Second marriage going famously.
First Wife passed on.
Or did she?
Betimes in darkness
There’s a whisper. A chair moved.
Book tipped over.
Cooling breeze, but no window
Allowing.
It’s her.
Won’t leave this House.
Her house.
New wife is going to get
The business.
Embarrassed
Unsettled.
Amusingly so.
Husband like rabbit in the
Lights.
old wife having best
Time of her ?life.?
| Scheme | ABACDEFGEHHICJKFLMNO |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (50%) |
| Metre | 101010100 1111 111 1010 1010011 1110 1011110 010 10 1111 01 1111011 010 010 010 01001 1011000 1 11101 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 380 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 16 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 20 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 291 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
About this poem
Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts".[1] The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his wilful and temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles's marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost. (Wikipedia) more »
Written on March 24, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 24, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on March 25, 2023
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