This is an analysis of the poem The Old Camp that begins with:
I.
There is a cloud before the sun,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdede X cfcffbfb X gegechch X ififfjfj a eaeaiiii a eaeXdgdg X klkldmdm X egegnjnj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10010101 010111 11000101 01011 010101001 100101 10010111 110001 1 11010101 110101 01011111 111101 11000111 110101 01011111 110101 1 11010101 010101 11110111 010101 11011101 110101 11010100 110101 1 10111101 110101 11010101 010011 11111111 111101 11011111 011001 1 11011101 111101 10100101 010111 1111111 110001 01110001 110101 1 11010101 110101 01010101 110101 01010101 111101 110011001 111101 1 11110101 110001 11110101 111111 01011111 011101 01010001 111101 1 10011101 101101 01010101 110101 111111010 110101 110100110 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, so, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Old Camp;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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