This is an analysis of Man And Camel by Mark Strand.
On the eve of my fortieth birthday
I sat on the porch having a smoke…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcXdbeacaeXedbXaX
- Stanza lengths: 21,
- Metre: 1010110011 111011001 11001011010 101101001 1111110101 110101000101 111101010001 010001101 1101000100010 111111110 111010101 01010100110 00101011101 101101101010 1001111101 1111000101 1111010001 110101110 101110111 10111010111 1010011001000
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
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