This is an analysis of the poem Basaco that begins with:
The watchfires died away from the bivouac on the hill,
And o'er the mountain-tops the dawn crept cold and slow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded ebeb eXeX fgfgXdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001010010101 1100101011111 100101010101 1101111010001 1111111010111 0101011010101 110101010001 111111010101 10101010010101 10101011010111 1110101110101 10101010010001 101111110101 10100011110011 1101110011111 1110011010001 11101010101 1001011111100 1110011010101 00101011010101 101011010101 10111010101 10101011010101 1110101110111 101010111101 1011100100101 101110010001 111011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, on, down are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Basaco;
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