This is an analysis of the poem Pacific Coast that begins with:
Half across the world to westward there's a harbour that I know,
Where the ships that load with lumber and the China liners go, -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcc bbdd ccaA eeaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101010111 101110101010101 101111111011111 101011111011001 101010101110101 101110101101011 101011101111101 101011101010101 111001111110101 101111101010101 101010101010101 101110101111111 101010101010111 101010101010111 101000100011101 10101010101100101 1010111011010111 101110111010101 111010111111101 101010100010111 10101010101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, and, still, half are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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