This is an analysis of the poem Dickens In Camp that begins with:
Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting,
The river sang below;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb efeX efef ghgh Xiii efXf jgjgXjiji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111010 010101 01010101110 110101 010110011010 010101 11011111110 001111 11011001110 010101 11010101010 010101 11110111010 1101001 11010101010 11011 01110101010 110001 111101001110 010101 011100100011 1001001 10110111011 101111 110101000100 111101 11100101010 010101 10111101010 111111 11001110101 111101 10111101010 100111 01101101010 110101 11111101110 110101 101101010010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word lost at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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