This is an analysis of the poem By The Camp Fire that begins with:
Ah, 'twas but now I saw the sun flush pink on yonder placid tide;
The purple hill-tops, one by one, were strangely lit and glorified;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab ccd bbe fXff ggh aab gge hhX hhg eeb ggaggX eee hhd eeg ccX hhX ddbXbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,6,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111110101 0101111101011101 1111011101010101 11010111101101001 11011111110001001 0111110110110101 0111010111000111 1101110101010111 0101010110010101 1101110111111101 101101111101110 1 11010111001100111 11010101010100101 1101111101011101 1111010101001101 1101010111010011 0111010101011101 1101011011010101 0101110110010111 1011010101111101 1111010101010001 1111010111111101 0101011101110101 11001011101010101 0101010101010111 01110101110011011 11111111100010111 0101110111111111 0101011111011100 1101111111110111 0111010101110101 11110111010100111 1101010111011101 1101010101010101 0101011111110101 100111001010010111 1001010111011101 100110000110010101 1100011110010101 1101011111010101 11010010110111111 1101111101011101 1111110101110111 11010101010110101 11111001100111101 1101010111110101 0101011111010111 0101011101011111 1111111111110101 1111011111111101 1101011111001101 1011001110010101 11001111101111101 1111111100110101 1111011111010101 1110110111010111 1101010111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, my, in, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, only are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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