This is an analysis of the poem The Old Camp Fire that begins with:
Now shift the blanket pad before your saddle back you fling,
And draw your cinch up tighter till the sweat drops from the ring: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeXc bbffcc gghhic jejkkcc ggddcc glmmic mmnnchc ooggccXllkkcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,7,6,6,7,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101110111 11111101011001 1010100101110101 11110111111101 11010101101110 100111011101110 110011111001101 11011101111111 11110101111001 11011101111001 1101111101111110 110111010101110 11011111011101 11011101010101 11011101110101 11010100101101 011111111101010 110100011101110 11111101111111 01110101010111 11110111110101 11010101111111 100110011100011 001111110101110 11011101111111 110111111011 111 11110101011101 01100101010111 01110010101101010 010101010101110 11111101110111 011111110010101 01110101011101 011101101100111 010101010111110 110101010111110 11110101110101 011010101110101 1101010001010111 11110101111101 1111001010111110 100101011101110 11011111111101001 0111011101110001 11011101010101 1100011110111 110101011101010 11110111010 1110 01110100110101 01011101110011 011110111110111 011101001110111 1110010101010010 011111001001110 11010101010111 11010101101101 01011101011101 01011101010001 1010010100101010 010111110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, of, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word fire at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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