This is an analysis of the poem London Seagulls that begins with:
The pigeons of the Abbey, the pigeons of Saint Paul's,
That woo in windy niches of grey and grimy walls,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa aabb aacc aaXX ddbb aaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100010010011 1101010011101 0111010011111 0101011101101 0101010110101 1101010011011 1101011010111 1111110110101 1101010110101 0101110111011 1111010111101 01010100010101 1111110111101 0101110010101 1111010110001 0110010110100 11111100100101 01010100110101 0101010111101 1100010111101 1101010110011 0101010110101 10101010010011 11011010110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, london, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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