This is an analysis of Beautiful River by Robert Wadsworth Lowry.
And he showed me a pure River of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb." -- Rev. xxii. 1
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abab c AAAB adad AAAB aeaf AAAB aeaf AAAB acaf AAAB acafXAAAB
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1111011001001111001010010110010111 11101010 1110111 00101010 1010101 10 11101010 0100010010 100011010 1110101 10100010 1010101 10111010 1010101 11101010 0100010010 100011010 1110101 10100010 1010111 11111010 10100011 11101010 0100010010 100011010 1110101 11101010 11100101 11100010 10101111 11101010 0100010010 100011010 1110101 10100010 10000101 11101010 11101011 11101010 0100010010 100011010 1110101 11101010 1110001 11101010 00100011 11101010 0100010010 100011010 1110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 51
Repeated words/phrases
of, river
Anaphora
soon
Epiphora
river