This is an analysis of the poem When The Gulls Come In that begins with:

WHEN the gulls come in, and the shallow sings
Fresh to the wind, and the bell-buoy rings, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010101 1001101101 101010101 010100101 1011000101 10100101 10011111 0010110111 11110111 100100101 110111001 110100111 101110110 1010100111 101111111 10100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word god is repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of When The Gulls Come In;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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