This is an analysis of the poem At Pleasure Bay that begins with:
In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay
A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefXddebgdXbhXihdaXejheeekcedjedclXjkgieiemXfebXbkgedlXfcadXeeiaigmddgbfefemXemlebejeda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 91,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011010101101 01110100111 11001010101 0101001 110100101010 1000101001010 110101011001 01110101010 10101110011100 11111111010 010101111101 10100011101 10111110101 010100100010 111111101010 100101001010 01101011111 1001011101 010000111010 01101010101 110101101110 101011111111 0101110101 010101100101 10011101110 01010101011 01110111110 10011010010110 110001010101 01001001011001 01011001010 01010111110 111100110110 01010101110 110010101101 100001001010 10010010101110 010101001001 0100110101 0101011111010 010000100010 10011110101 01010010110 10010101110 110111101101110 010010001010 01001011111 010001110010 100111101001 110101101110 000101010001 0100101110100 11010101101 110010010010 10001010111 11010100010 0100011001010 1100100111101 10110100111 010010100011 011101001010 010110100101 110101010100 110101110100 110110100001 00101001011 110111010010 101000101011 110101001110 11010010111 11010100111 110101110110 110111110010 11011010111 11010010101 0101010101 01010001010 1011010001 11110111001 100111001011 1111011111 1111011111 110001101011 01011110101 1011010101110 10111100111 100110110011 0110000101010 1001010111 11111101010 110100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4269
- Average number of words per stanza: 784
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, you, same are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, and are repeated.
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