This is an analysis of the poem Camps Of Green that begins with:

NOT alone those camps of white, O soldiers,
When, as order'd forward, after a long march,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXXefgbahgX iXdgeX hhdcceheXXc fiXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,6,11,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101110 11101010011 1011011011011010 1 1011011000111110 01011 10100101101011010 10 110101001001101 101010110010110 1001001011110100 1 111010111110101 110 10100101 10100101 10101110101011 10 001010001101000110 1001 1111110 1011010111001 001010101000011 1 1010011101001110 110111 01010101110101 01110011010110011 1001 10101110101110011 11 101101111 11001101110110010 101 1111011111110100 110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 445
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; in, and, of, all, for are repeated.

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