This is an analysis of A Commonplace Song by George Essex Evans.
Ebbs and flows the restless river
In the city street…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcDefefgdgd bebeadaD chchadaD XeiejdjD ckckcdcd ghghXiai alalldlD giXimdmD
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11101010 00101 10111010 10101 10101110 10101 11111010 00101 11101010 10111 11111010 00111 11101010 10101 100000110 10101 110111010 10101 11101010 11101 10101010 11101 01111010 00101 11101010 11111 11101010 00101 11101110 10101 10111010 00101 1011110 11111 11101010 10101 11111010 10101 10101010 00101 11101110 10001 100110110 10001 10101010 11101 10101010 01101 11101110 10101 10101010 10101 10101010 10001 10111010 10101 11111110 11101 11101010 10101 00101110 11011 11111010 00101 10111010 10001 10101010 00101 11100010 10101 11101110 00101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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