Asked by Quandra

Read the excerpt from "A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,

Alice moving under skies

Never seen by waking eyes.

How does the comma in the first line contribute to a gloomy tone?

by showing the speaker’s wish to see Alice again
by emphasizing how the speaker thinks of Alice
by explaining how Alice moves near the speaker
by suggesting that the speaker is frightened of Alic

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
by emphasizing how the speaker thinks of Alice

The comma creates a pause that isolates "phantomwise," stressing the ghostlike, haunting quality and giving the line an eerie, gloomy emphasis on how the speaker remembers her.