This is an analysis of The Camp Fires Of The Past by Rex Ingamells.

A thousand, thousand camp fires every night,
in ages gone, would twinkle to the dark…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbbXXXXabaabbXXb
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 010101101001 0101110001 0111000101 010111101 01010101010 0101110101 111001000100 110100001 1100010101 01010110111 11010011111 111100111001 01010110001 0111001101 11110100001 1011010100 1111111101 110010101011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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