This is an analysis of To A River In Which A Child Was Drowned by Charles Lamb.
Smiling river, smiling river,
On thy bosom sun-beams play;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc bdXd eeXe
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101010 1110111 11101010 1110111 01100110 10011101 1011100 1110101 1010010100 1110101 11100010 1010101 10101010 1110001 11101100 0010111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
