This is an analysis of The Gulf by Katherine Mansfield.
A Gulf of silence separates us from each other.
I stand at one side of the gulf, you at the other.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 0101010110110 1111100111010 11011111111111 1011111101 10110100110011 111101101111 11111101101 11101000110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
you, i
Anaphora
i
Epiphora
other
