This is an analysis of The Brook. (From The Spanish) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Laugh of the mountain! -- lyre of bird and tree!
Pomp of the meadow! mirror of the morn!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccccdaddaX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1001010111 1001110001 0101010111 0111001101 111001100101 0101011101 0111010101 1101111101 10111101010 10110101001 1101111101 101101001110 1101000111 110101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of, thy

Anaphora

the