This is an analysis of A Yorkshire River by Sir Lewis Morris.

THE silent surfaces sleep
With a sullen viscous flow,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdcd efefef cgcgcg dhdhdh hdhdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 0101001 0010101 1100101 1011011 11101010111 0010101 101101101 1011101 0101001 1110111 0101001 0111001 10100101 1100111 10111011 10110111 111011001001 1100110 0011101 0100101 10111001 0111101 11111001101 1101101 10100101 1101011 1111001 1110111 1101101001 00100101 11101101 111010101 11011011 1101011 1011011000 1110111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

and, of, from

Anaphora

the, and, whose