This is an analysis of Green River by William Cullen Bryant.
When breezes are soft and skies are fair,
I steal an hour from study and care,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffXeggbbhhaaff iibbggjjccffiieeff aaeejjffeekk bbiillhhjj
- Stanza lengths: 8,16,18,12,10,
- Metre: 110111111 1111001011 1110100111 1100101001 1001101101 1101100111 111110101 110100111 1101001011 0101011001 110110101 110101101 1011101100 010101101 1110111101 0100100111 0010110101 1011100101 1100100111 010111111 0100101101 1100100101 110010101 010111101 1111111001 100110101 110010101 010101101 1101111101 0111101011 1011111001 0100100101 10100101011 1101011101 1101101011 010111111 11010111 1010101101 111110101 010101101 0100100101 1100100101 110101101 1111101111 110100101 100111001 11000100101 1010101001 111111111 010110101 1010101101 10100110011 11101110101 10100100101 110110101 1111001001 1100101001 1010111011 110100101 010111011 110110101 101101101 110011101 111101100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
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