This is an analysis of the poem Green Rock, Winthrop Bay that begins with:
No lame excuses can gloss over
Barge-tar clotted at the tide-line, the wrecked pier....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba Xcc ddd eee ffX ddd aab ggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110 11101011011 111110 010011101 1001001001001100 11010 1100101 11001100111 00101 010010111 1101111101 0101 110001010 1010100111 001001 01011100 1101101100101 11010 011101010 010101011010 10111 11111111 1011110101 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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- summary of Green Rock, Winthrop Bay;
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- history of its creation;
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