I would classify this as a 'sound' poem. The alliterative sounds you put in the reader's head: quay - quite, knocks as battered docks rock, and some half-rhymes in the middle all work. Like the birds screaming, you make it real by having us imagine.
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I would classify this as a 'sound' poem. The alliterative sounds you put in the reader's head: quay - quite, knocks as battered docks rock, and some half-rhymes in the middle all work. Like the birds screaming, you make it real by having us imagine.