This is an analysis of Mutation by William Cullen Bryant.

They talk of short-lived pleasure--be it so--
Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc ccccdd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101110001 1111011101 010110101001 0101001101 1101010101 0101000101 01001010101 1011010101 0101010101 1101001100 11100111101 0110011111 1110110001 0101001110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

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