This is an analysis of At Darien Bridge by James Dickey.
The sea here used to look
As if many convicts had built it,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab cX bd Xe eb ec dd cX Xb Xb cd bX eb aX
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Metre: 011101 101010110 10101101 101001001 01110101 11001101 11011011 010101 1111011 101001001 10001101 01110010 101101011 11111001 11111011 101111111 00101001 01001001 10111110 01001011 111111010 101111010 101001011 1110110 11100101 1111010010 0010101 10111001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 41
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