This is an analysis of Boats Sail On The Rivers by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

Boats sail on the rivers,
And ships sail on the seas;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabaaaXaba
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 111010 111101 11110101 1100111 11101010 110111 10111010 110001 11010101 0100111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

sail

Anaphora

and