This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Camp-Fire that begins with:
Heed me, feed me, I am hungry, I am red-tongued with desire;
Boughs of balsam, slabs of cedar, gummy fagots of the pine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedeffffbfbfbbbbghah X eee fff eee bbb eee iii Xcc ddd jjj eee X kbkbdede agagblblXbibibabbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,8,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111011110010 101010101010001 1011111001101010 101010101010101 111010101011100 101010100110101 101000101010101 101010100110111 111010111101101 1010110111010011 011010100111101 101000101010101 111010101010111 101110101110111 10101010101010 1011101010110001 001110111010101 101010101011101 101010101010101 001100100010001 001010100011001 101000101010011 111010101110101 001010100010001 1010110011110010 101010101010101 1010001010101010 101010101010101 1 1011111110001001 111111101110101 1111011111010001 100110101110111 101010101110111 101010101010101 111110111111111 111010111011101 111011110111101 111010101110111 111010101010111 1110101011101100 001100100111111 101111101111101 101000100110101 101010000010101 101010101010111 001001101001101 101010111010100 101010111010101 101010101010101 111111101110101 0010001000100001 101110101110111 111011101110001 111010111111101 001010101011001 111011101111111 101110101010011 111010101110100 1 111011101110111 1101010101 11011111010111 0101010001 11010100010001 0101010101 1010100101011001 10001010011 1010111011111010 0101010101 1010101010100110 1100010001 101110100010101 10100011001 111110101111111 11111110111 01010101110101 1101110101 11010101110001 1101010111 01100111011101 10011101010 11011101010101 110101101010001 01010101010001 011001110010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, of, i, my, them, in, and, your, you, for, ye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, in, let, for, now, there, yet are repeated.
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