This is an analysis of Sea-Gulls Of Manhattan by Henry Van Dyke.
Children of the elemental mother,
Born upon some lonely island shore…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Ababcdcd efXfghXh iiXiXjaj idgdXkXkXAecekdad
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,17,
- 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
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
where, here, while
