Analysis of The Gulf
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
A Gulf of silence separates us from each other.
I stand at one side of the gulf, you at the other.
I cannot see you or hear you, yet know that you are there.
Often I call you by your childish name
And pretend that the echo to my crying is your voice.
How can we bridge the gulf? Never by speech or touch.
Once I thought we might fill it quite up with tears.
Now I want to shatter it with our laughter.
| Scheme | AABCDEFA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011101011110 1111110111010 11011111111111 1011111101 00110101110111 111101101111 11111111111 111110111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 403 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 308 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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