This is an analysis of The Gulls by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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Soft is the sky in the mist-kirtled east,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a babacdcd X efefaaaa X gfgfdhdh
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,1,8,1,8,
  • Metre: 1 1001001101 1001101 1001001001 1001101 1001111001 1101101 1001001101 11101101 1 1001101011 1001001 1001101011 1011011 1101011001 1011111 1101001101 11101101 1 1001001101 1101011 1101001011 10110011 1001011111 1001001 1001011011 11101101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 29