This is an analysis of the poem By The Old Pagoda Anchorage [1926] that begins with:
By the old Pagoda Anchorage they lay full fifteen strong,
And their spars were like a forest, and their names were like a song,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XbcdeXdbfg hbc eicbhbXbbg XbX JIij kkffkXXkjJIIJ ddllbffbJjiIJ
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,3,10,3,4,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010100111011 111010101110101 1001 1 10 1 10 10 111 1 1101 00101010111 100 1 101 0 010 101 1 100 1 010 1 101 01 100 0010111 100 101010100110101 10101010 10111010 101110100010101 1010101000100101 01010100111101 1110101 1010111 001011101111101 1011101 1010001 101111101011101 01111100110110 101010100110101 10101010 10111010 101110100010101 101010100010111 101010101010101 1010101 1010101 001101101011101 1011111 1111101 101010100111101 101010100110101 1011101011101101 10111010 10111010 101110100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, on, river are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines river is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word tea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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