This is an analysis of the poem Anchors that begins with:
In a breaker's yard by the Millwall Docks,
With its piled-up litter of sheaveless blocks,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcc ddeeffbb ccgghXhh hhhhii jj kkggll XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,6,2,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010110101 00111001001 101011010 0101101010 111011010 1011111110 110100011 10110101 1001001010 1101111110 10101101 11001111001 110111101 101111011 10101101 101101111 10110111 11100110111 0010011101 010110101 011100101 1010100101 010110101 010110101 100111010 111111110 11100101 111100101 100111001 10110111 11100111101 101100110111 110010101 10110011 10010111 1010110111 1011100101 010111101 111100 010101 1011010 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; for, every, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Anchors;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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