This is an analysis of the poem De Camp On De that begins with:
You 'member de ole log-camp, Johnnie, up on de Cheval Gris,
W'ere we work so hard all winter, long ago you an' me?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bbaX XcdX eeaa eeff edaX bbdd XXgg ddhh XacX ccaX deXX aXdd ffaX XXaX aaaa ggXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011110110101 11111110101111 111111011101110 11011110010101111 10111101101101011 101011011010010111 11011101101111 101111101110101 1010110101111110 100110101101101 1101010101111101 1100110110111111 11110111011101 11100100101101111 111111110101111111 111111101111111 1011001101100111 111011010101001 1101101011101111 111110101110111 111110011011010001 1111110101110101 11111101101111101 101111100111110 11001011011111001 1011111111011101 111011011111011 1011111101111011 111101111101011000 1111011110101111 01011110010111101 11011011011101101 1010110101101101 1111100010111011101 11110111010010111 01101101111111101 111110011010100010 110011110111111 11100110101011101 1111111101000100 10110101101111110 10101110101010111 101110010111101101 111001111111110 11111110101101111 111111011001110001 10110110110110110 1110111011101101 111111101111110 1101110110101 110011101110101 11010110110101 10111111101101101 1100100101100111 1111110110111101 111101101110111 1111101101101101 111101010110100 111011011111111101 1100111011101011 11101111010110111 100101110111111 1110011100111111 1110101101101101 01111101101100110 10111111101101 11110110110001 10111111101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', de, on, i, you, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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