This is an analysis of The Brook-Song by James Whitcomb Riley.
Little brook! Little brook!
You have such a happy look--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabaccc dXbXeebe ffgfggg ddXXccec hhchiiii
- Stanza lengths: 7,8,7,8,8,
- Metre: 101101 1110101 101010101111 111 1110111 1110111 1101010001 101101 101010 11000101110 100 011101 0011101 10101111 111 101101 0011101 101010100110 111 1010111 1010100 1101110101 111101 1010111 11011100110 100 1010101 0110001 101001101 11 101111 1110101 111010101110 101 111111 1010101 110101110 1
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 38
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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