This is an analysis of A Phantom Scene Barely Glimmers by Osip Emilevich Mandelstam.

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A phantom scene barely glimmers,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aabXcda X bdXXXeeX X XfXceXdX X ffbXXXfX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,7,1,8,1,8,1,8,
  • 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
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 35

Anaphora

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