This is an analysis of the poem The Daughter Goes To Camp that begins with:

In the taxi alone, home from the airport,
I could not believe you were gone. My palm kept...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbcXdcXXXebffccfXadXghegX Xh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00100110011 11101101111 10100110 0111101011 101110100 101000101 1110011010100 1011100 1001001010 10101010 101011011 1011101 10010111001 101101011 111010011 11011010 10110010110 100100111 1011001111 10101001 101010010 110110100 1011111010 1111010101 0110101110 111101100 010001101001101 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 540
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, your, you are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines your, the are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Daughter Goes To Camp;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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