This is an analysis of Reeds Of Innocence by William Blake.

Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc XXdc eXea dcXc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1010101 1010101 1011101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1011110 1111101 1111101 1110101 1110101 1110101 1011111 0011111 1110011 1110101 1110101 1110101 1111101 10011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

thy, and, i

Anaphora

piping, and