This is an analysis of To The River Otter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Dear native brook! wild streamlet of the West!
How many various-fated years have passed,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaabcbcbcdbd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101110001 11010010011 11011101011 1101110111 10001111101 1011011111 1101010101 1101111101 1101110111 110111001001 1111100111 1001111101 1101110101 1111100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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