This is an analysis of the poem Mon Frere Camille that begins with:

Mon frere Camille he was first class blood
W'en he come off de State las' fall,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBcDCBE ebcfgffgXB eghXXgX XXcccigB jkiXikB XXeeXhB gdhhXcB licXcXB mmbXbXmB fchhXhXB XXjjjlXB aefffmeE ehXhXhE hbXXXXbB heaaaeB macXXbXB bhXXXXnB hbccXcXB bnbbXhE beXcXceE XXXmmXEXaBcDCBE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,7,8,7,7,7,7,8,8,8,8,7,8,7,8,8,8,7,8,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111111 11110111 101101111 110111110 111101111 11111111 0111 111011111 01 11010111 11111011011 1110111110 01 1100111001 1111011111 1 1101 11011011101 10111011 11011100111 1010111011 111010011 11011111101 11100 1110110101 11101111 11111110111 11001100111 111111101 1011110101 11 1101 10101110111 111101111 1111110111 110100111 1011101101 10101111 1101 11111101101 1110101 011101101 1100110101 1111110110 11101101 1101 111011101 11111110 11101011111 1110101101 01111101110 11101111 1101 1011110101 1101111 11101110111 111101101110 1110110101 1010111101 1101 10111101101 10110101 100110101111 11100110010 1110101111 111101111 1 1101 1101101101 1110111 11110011101 101110101101 1010111011 01 1110111110 1101 1111110101 11111101 11101011101 11101101101 101011101101 111110111 1 1101 1111011111 01110111 1111111001 101100101101 011111111 111101011 01 0111 11101110101 1101001 1111010110 1101101101 1111010110 11110100111 0111 1100101101 1110111 0110111101 1101111101 111111110 1 1111111 1101 111101101 1101101 110110111 1101111101 1110101111 1111101110101 1101 1011101111 1111101 1111101101 10100101110 1111111101 1110111111 11 1101 1111110111 10100101 1111011110 111011111 1111111001 1 11111111 1101 101011111 1101101 11110111101 1100111111 1111111010 1 1111110101 1101 1011111111 111101111 111101101 101011011011 0010111111 10111111 0111 110111111 1111111 1111101110 1011101101 1111011001 01 1111111101 0111 1111011110 1111111 111001101 1111111111 1111101111 0100110110 0111 1101011111 11110111 101101111 110111110 111101111 11111111 0111
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 167
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; 's, de, me, an', he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, an' are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same words camille, frere at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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