This is an analysis of Nacogdoches Speaks by Karle Wilson Baker.
I was The Gateway. Here they came, and passed,
The homespun centaurs with their arms of steel…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101111111 0111101101 1111111101 1100110111 1001010001 0011111111 0101010101 1101011111 1111110111 11110100110 1100111101 1111010101 01110101110 0100101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
of, i
Anaphora
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