This is an analysis of The Crowded Street by William Cullen Bryant.
Let me move slowly through the street,
Filled with an ever-shifting train,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fgfg ffff chch ifif ebeb jaja kakaXcece
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110101 10110101 01010111 010011101 11010101 01010101 11010111 11011111 11010101 01010101 010101001 01010101 11010101 11010101 01010101 01001101 11110101 11011101 11111101 010010111 10111101 11010011 11011101 11000101 11010101 101100011 110101011 110100101 10010111 01111101 1101000101 11010101 11011111 011101101 11110101 11010101 11011101 11111101 10111101 00111101 110010111 01010101 11000101 11000101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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