This is an analysis of the poem Love's Phantom that begins with:
SHUT out day's wintry beams!
Sleep, brood upon my brain!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca bdbdeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 110111 111101 1101 111111 1100111 110101 1101 010111 0101011 111111 01001 010101 011001 1101111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word its is repeated.
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- summary of Love's Phantom;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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