Analysis of The Seagull

Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)



His face was stilled by the soaring seagull
As the clouds cleared for its eliquent pull
He wondered how long it would circle above
As he thought of trips with his lost true love
In his belt was a batten he'd found on the street
But it was almost the bird that took away his feet
As it started to head straight into his chest
After swallowing a lobster whole and full breast
they suffered together a pain caught anew that wouldn't mend or see itself through
As the seagull lay silent and still in his hands
A women walked towards him concerned, pure and true


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Poetic Form
Metre 111110101 10111111 11011111001 1111111111 011101011101 111101110111 11101110111 101000101011 11001001101110111011 10111001011 010101101101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 557
Words 106
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 449
Words per stanza (avg) 106
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Written on August 28, 2022

Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on August 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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