This is an analysis of the poem At The 'National Encampment' that begins with:

You 're grayer than one would have thought you:
The climate you have over there... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababb cdcdd Xefee XXXgg dhdhh ififf ijijjXcecee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1110111111 01011101 0011010011 01001001 11011011 111101110 01001011 111010010 11011001 00101101 101111010 1101111 010110010 11101001 01101011 111011010 1100101 1010110010 11010101 1101111 111010111 110010011 010110111 01001001 101001001 111110110 11001101 1111110110 111011001 11001001 110110010 01111001 0011111010 11001001 111111001 111011010 11011011 110111010 1100111 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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