This is an analysis of the poem The Phantom Ball that begins with:
You remember the hall on the corner?
To-night as I walked down street... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbab Xdedcd efXfXf aeaeae ebgbhb gfgfXf eihibi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011010 0111111 1101010 1010111 01001010 010101 111110011 01011101 011110 101101 1011110010 1100101 11111110 010101 101001010 10100100 1001010 111101 1101010 110101 110011010 1100111 111001010 1010101 11111110 110001 11101010 1111101 101011010 10100111 1001111 1001001 1111110 1111101 1011110 111111 1011111 10101001 1011010 00101001 101011110 11101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, of, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, each are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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