This is an analysis of the poem Trooper Campbell that begins with:
One day old Trooper Campbell
Rode out to Blackman's Run, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefe fgdghbab ijcjaklk alXlafbf ammmhbkb ciaiakhX aikiabhX jjhjfnin ancnbkik beiekikX abmbfkhk jimikaaa albliodo bbcbaimi fjfjgbmb XjajXbiX XXjiiiXi Xhkdkfjdj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 110101 0111010 010001 1111110 010101 0111110 010101 0101110 011001 0111010 111101 11001010 0010101 11111110 111101 0101110 010111 1101010 010111 1001010 110101 01011101 111101 1011010 0011111 11010111 011101 0111010 011111 11110101 11101 1111110 110101 1011111 011101 1101010 111101 1101010 110101 1011010 110101 1111010 0010101 1111110 1111101 1110010 1101100 1111010 111111 1101110 111011 1110110 110101 1101110 111011 0101011 110001 1111011 011101 1101110 110001 110110011 011101 0101010 110111 0111010 110101 1011010 111111 11010111 110101 1101010 010011 1101010 110111 11010101 110101 11011101 010111 00111010 110101 1101011 1111001 1101010 110101 1101010 011001 11000111 111101 1101100101 010111 1111010 010101 1111010 011111 1101110 110111 1101011 010101 0101010 110101 1110110 110101 1111110 110111 1101110 110101 1111010 111101 1111111 1101101 1101010 010101 1111010 011101 11010101 111101 11100001 110101 110110 0111101 1011010 110101 111110 111101 11011101 1111011 111110 1101010 0101010 110101 0101110 110111 0101110 11101 1101010 110101 10111010 010101 1101110 110111 1001010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 147
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, and, my, that, to, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i, that are repeated.
The author used the same words the, that at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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