Analysis of A SWARM OF SEAGULLS (After Andrea Kowch)
In the early wheat,
I stretch out;
part-lying on the ground,
part-levitating above it.
Not the season for
sunbathing.
A swarm of seagulls
rises from the roof of the
little washboard church.
More birds pitch and tumble
lower down. It seems
as if the fabric of the
wood itself is splintering
into birds taking flight.
Caught
in an uncanny breeze
my clothes billow out,
my hair swirls around.
I float: grey into white.
I am subsumed into
church and sky and birds.
| Scheme | XABXXC XDXXXDCE XXABEXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00101 111 110101 1100011 10101 10 0111 1010110 1011 111010 10111 1101010 1011100 011101 1 010101 11101 11101 111011 11101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 443 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
This poem is a response to a Magical Realism painting by American artist Andrea Kowch.
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