This is an analysis of the poem The Gulf that begins with:
A Gulf of silence separates us from each other.
I stand at one side of the gulf, you at the other.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010110110 1111100111010 11011111111111 1011111101 10110100110011 111101101111 11111101101 11101000110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines other is repeated).
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- summary of The Gulf;
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