This is an analysis of the poem The Phantom Curate that begins with:
A bishop once - I will not name him see -
Annoyed his clergy in the mode conventional;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXX cdcdee fgfXgg eeeehh fifiaX fcfchh hihXXX dgdXhh jXjbhh jajXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101101111 010100010100 0101010101 110111110100 110100011000 010111001100 1101011011 110101010100 1101111101 110101000100 110101010100 110111010100 0101010101 110101110100 1111010001 110101010100 110101010100 010101000100 1101010101 100101110101 101111111 1111010000101 010101010100 010101000100 01111011001 010100110100 1100110101 110101000100 110001110101 11110010010000 1100110101 010001110101 10110101001 000111110101 100111010100 111101110100 1111010101 11011101100 1101110111 011100010100 111111010100 11010101100 1101111101 1111100110100 0011011101 110101001100 110001011100 010111010100 1111011101 010100111000 1101110101 01010111100 111101010110 1100101010110 1111011101 10011000010111 0111010001 1101010111010 111110010101 010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'em, it, him are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Phantom Curate;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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