This is an analysis of the poem Barbury Camp that begins with:
We burrowed night and day with tools of lead,
Heaped the bank up and cast it in a ring...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXab cbcbcb dadada ececac efefeX cbcbcb cacaca Xagaga cfcfcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001110101 1011110001 1101011101 100010011010 1111 1011110101 1111111111 1111110111 1111010001 1110011001 1011 10110011111 1001110011 1111011101 1010111011 1101101101 1111 0101111011 1101110111 10011000111 1011100111 1110011001 0010 1111011110 1101111101 0111110111 1111111001111 111111101111 1111 001101010110 10111110101 1011110001 1101111001 1110100110110 1001 0101000101 1101110111 1101111101 100111110 1001110001 1101 1111110101 1111111100 1001011101 1001010001 1111111111 1101 1101110101 11111101111 1111010111 110111110111 10100001011 1101 10111101110110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, us, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wind is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase we connects the lines.
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