Analysis of The Campin' Man
I love campin' and do it as oft I can,
Some even call me the "campin' man",
The fresh air you breathe is relaxing, I've often thunk,
Unless, of course, it's saturated with the smell of skunk.
Ah, can beans, cooked over a fire, be beat,
With the gnats and flies providing the meat?
Or even a marshmallow toasted over a fire,
Burnt to a crisp and smelling like tire,
It's the life all right, the great outdoors,
With the dirt and mud providing the floors,
The mosquitoes buzzin' and the hornets swarmin',
It's like a painting of Americana, by Uncle Norman.
Even a rattlesnake on a trail can't deter me,
'cause I'm in the great outdoors, and I'm free,
On my fun nothing can put a damper,
I'm an outdoorsman, the original "happy camper."
Now, here I sit writin' poems by the ol' camplight,
Oops, it's startin' to rain hard and it's lightnin' bright,
So much for this outdoor nonsense, and I don't care who you tell,
But, I'm runnin' like a deer, to the nearest motel!
Scheme | AAXX BBCC DDAX EECC BXFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) |
Metre | 1110111111 11011011 0111110101101 0111110010111 11111001011 1010101001 1100101010010 1101010110 101110111 1010101001 0010100101 110101001011010 100101011011 1100111011 1111011010 11110001001010 11111101011 1111110111 11111100111111 111101101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 944 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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