This is an analysis of the poem A Phantom Scene Barely Glimmers that begins with:
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A phantom scene barely glimmers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabXcda X bdXXXeeX X XfXceXdX X ffbXXXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01011010 01101 10011010001010 101001101 011011 1010100010110 010110 1 11101011 10101 001010101 01010001 111001001 01100100 1010110 1010110 1 010110010 101011 11011100 111001001 111101010 10100101 100010101 01100010 1 010011101 00110101 001000101 0100110111 0100010010 100100110 10101011 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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