This is an analysis of Upon The Flint In The Water by John Bunyan.

This flint, time out of mind, has there abode,
Where crystal streams make their continual road.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXaaXbccbb c ddaa
  • Stanza lengths: 12,1,4,
  • Metre: 0111011101 11011101001 1001011111 0101010111 011000001010 11111101010 1101010101 0101011101 1100010101 01010010101 0101000100 11101101011 0100 0111000111 1110010111 0101111101 1110111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

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