This is an analysis of the poem Western Camps that begins with:
THREE men stood with their glasses lifted,
Night was around them and flaring lamps:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcdccdaaaaaaeaaefgffgXdhhdfifficXccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010 110101101 1000111110 100101110 100100111 111111110 11101111 101001110 101101010 11100101 1000101010 10011101 101010110 1111011010 11100101 1000111010 11101111 100101110 1001001010 10011101 10011011010 100100101 111101010 00010010010 11100101 100101010 10110101 101011110 111011110 10010111 101011110 10100101 100101010 101101110 110100101 110111010 1100110111 0101111010 1101011110 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1604
- Average number of words per stanza: 288
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, here's, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here's, drink are repeated.
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