This is an analysis of Encounter At St. Martin's by Ken Smith.

I tell a wanderer's tale, the same
I began long ago, a boy in a barn,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXaX XXaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110100101 10110101001 111110001 0111010110 0110110110 100101011 1101101010 0011011010 0010001001 011001101010 01000101001 01100101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

i, in, of

Anaphora

i, the