This is an analysis of The Battle-Field by William Cullen Bryant.
Once this soft turf, this rivulet's sands,
Were trampled by a hurrying crowd,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb fgfg hihi jkjk icic cgcg gaga ckck bdXd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101101001 010101001 11001111 01000101 111010101 11011001 11011101 01011101 11011111 01010101 11010101 110100111 11011101 011111001 11110101 10010101 11011111 11000101 11110111 11110101 010111001 11011101 011101001 11111111 11110001 11111101 01001101 01111111 11011101 01110101 10111111 010001001 11011101 001000110 110101001 11010100 11110101 11111101 11011101 11110101 01011111 01010101 100101010 010101011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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