Stress pattern : 4-3-4-3; story-line: simple and short

• 4-line stanzas rhyming abab;

• stress pattern : 4-3-4-3;

• story-line: simple and short;

• narrative technique: narrator and direct speech;

• subjects: universal themes (love, death, revenge)

• supernatural themes (ghosts);

• language : use of repetition.