This is an analysis of the poem As If A Phantom Caress'D Me that begins with:
AS if a phantom caress'd me,
I thought I was not alone, walking here by the shore;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010011 1111101101101 1011110111111010 1111011 11111101001111100 101 1101111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, me are repeated.
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