This is an analysis of the poem At Sugar Camp that begins with:
At Sugar Camp the cook is kind
And laughs the laugh we knew as boys;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababcdcd bebeeeee bbbbfgfg fXfXahahXAbabbfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11011111 11110111 01010111 01110101 11000101 11010101 01000001 01000101 01000101 01010101 01000101 01010011 11011111 11011101 10011101 11000101 11010101 11110100 110010101 11011101 01000101 11010101 11001101 11010111 11010001 11010111 01010111 01010001 11010101 11010111 11010101 11010101 010101001 10010011 11001101 11010101 11110111 11000111 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- 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; and, in, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, forgotten, our are repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of At Sugar Camp;
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