This is an analysis of Sunday Up The River by James Thomson.

MY love o'er the water bends dreaming;
   It glideth and glideth away:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1110010110 11011001 111011010 11111011 110110010 110111001 111110110 101011011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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