This is an analysis of the poem Spectral Life that begins with:
I was a long-while an ancient phantom,
Floating light as an aroma...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcX bXdbcX XeXbef XbbefX XbgggX dXXbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111010 10111010 011101 110100 101110 11101100 11111 1101010 1111010100 10010111 1110101 010111001 1110111 111111011 001001010 01010011 111100110 010101 11011100 010101 111011101 0111 1010001 01010110 100101 0100110 0101010 11111101 1011010 1111101110 100111110 11110010 110111 010010110 100111 01010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nights, and, nor 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 i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Spectral Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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