This is an analysis of the poem Sea-Gulls Of Manhattan that begins with:
Children of the elemental mother,
Born upon some lonely island shore ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababcdcd efXfghXh iiXiXjaj idgdXkXkXAecekdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101010 101110101 1010101110 101010111 111001010100 101000111 0011101010 111110111 1011101011 101110111 10000101000 111010111 10101100110 1010010101 10111010011 101010101 1110101010 111000101 1011111010 101011101 10010101010 101110001 0110001110 111010101 1010110010 111010111 1011101010 101110101 10111011100 1010100101 11111010100 101010101 1000101010 101010101 0010111010 1001011101 1010111011 101111111 1011101010 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, here, while are repeated.
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