This is an analysis of the poem Goophic Phantasm that begins with:
Tho' I own I have no adequate proofs
Of this queer tale of the quaint old Goophs ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXXccdd eeccXfbXgg XgbbggeeaX cchhcciijjXffggiiffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111001 001100111 011100101 11100100101 1010110100 101001001000 111110101 10100111011 0110100111 0110100101 1010110111 11001001001 110011101 1010100101 111110111 11100101011 110100101 111100101 101110111 010011100 1011110110 1011100101 110110111 010101101 110011101 010110111 001011111 101011111 1111100111 10111001100 10100101 100101111 1110010111 0101101101 1110100111 111101101 0101100111 10100100101 111100101 11111001001 1110111001 010101101 1111011001 1010010111 101011101 101001101001 11111111001 1111100111 1100100101 1010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, he, in, and, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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