This is an analysis of the poem Caesar's Camp that begins with:

Not for the wealth of thy teeming markets,
Roaring factory, thronging way,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXb ccXcdc efdfXf XfXfXf dfdfdf ebdbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011010 10100101 111001110 10110111 111001010 11101111 101011010 11100111 1011011101 111001101 100111110 110110111 101101110 1011101111 1001101110 1010110111 1110010010 110111101 11100111010 110101101 1101111010 110110111 1001011010 111111101 101110011 10011111 100111010 1111011001 100111110 111111101 111001110 111100101 101111110 111101101 111101010 11101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, with, and, for, to, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no 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.

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  • summary of Caesar's Camp;
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