This is an analysis of the poem Love's Phantom that begins with:
Whene'er I try to read a book,
Across the page your face will look, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee ffgg bbhh ddXX ggdd ffhh iiff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110101 01011101 11110111 11010111 11111101 10010111 11010111 111100101 11010001 11010101 11010101 11011101 11010101 01011101 10010111 10111101 11110101 11001101 01011111 11011101 11010101 01111101 110011000 110010001 10110111 11011101 11110101 10110001 10111101 11111101 10110101 01010111 1011111 01010111 11110111 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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