This is an analysis of The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield.

The gulls are mad-in-love with the river,
And the river unveils her face and smiles.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbbaaaXacXbdAXcXbdb
  • Stanza lengths: 19,
  • Metre: 0111010010 1010010111 0011011101101 1111010011100 111101101100 111001111010 0101100101101 110 1011000100111 1 001001001100111 10010001010 0111010010 11101110111 1110100101001 10 11101010011 1010010010010 11
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

her, and, of

Anaphora

wake

Epiphora

her