This is an analysis of Description by Mark Doty.
My salt marsh
-mine, I call it, because…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaa XaX aaX Xab aab caX dcd daX
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 111 111001 11101 0101000 10110 01111 1111100 110010 1001101 0101010 011011 101101 01101 010110 1011 111001 0011010 11111001 111110 11010 00111011 01011 0011 1010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
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