This is an analysis of The Phantom Kiss by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
One night in my room, still and beamless,
With will and with thought in eclipse,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baba cdcd cece fXff fgfg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110111110 00101001 110011110 11011111 011011010 11001001 010110010 01101011 111010111 11001101 110110011 11101011 0111011011 11101101 110110111 01101001 110110010 11101010 110110010 01001001 110110110 11001101 0100111010 11101111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
in, i, and, me, it, to
Anaphora
a, i, or
