This is an analysis of The River And The Hill by Henry Kendall.
And they shook their sweetness out in their sleep
On the brink of that beautiful stream,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabbcdDCC edddeecdDCC beXeddcdDcX
- Stanza lengths: 11,11,11,
- Metre: 1111101011 101011001 101001001001 101011001 10101 10111 00111111 101001 11101 0011101 0011101 1111101011 011011101 101101101111 11111001 10111 11101 10111111 01101 11101 0011101 0011101 10011101101 11011001 11111001101 11101011 0111 101101 1100111111 111111 11101 0111101 01111010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
and, of
Anaphora
of
Epiphora
hill
