This is an analysis of Ghostly by Jibanananda Das.
Once in a starry night sprawling on the cloud's edge
It occurred: am I a soul—or merely a ghostly spirit?…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xa XXabc bXXcaX X
- Stanza lengths: 2,5,6,1,
- Metre: 100101101011 001110111001010 10011001001101 11001111001 101011001111 011011 0110010101 1110100100101 01101010111010 1110001000100 001101 1101101010110101 10010011010001 01011010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
