This is an analysis of the poem Man And Camel that begins with:

On the eve of my fortieth birthday
I sat on the porch having a smoke...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabcXdbeacaeXedbXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110011 111011001 11001011010 101101001 1111110101 110101000101 111101010001 010001101 1101000100010 111111110 111010101 01010100110 00101011101 101101101010 1001111101 1111000101 1111010001 110101110 101110111 10111010111 1010011001000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 863
  • Average number of words per stanza: 169
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • 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; and is repeated.

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  • summary of Man And Camel;
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