This is an analysis of The Murdered Traveller by William Cullen Bryant.
When spring, to woods and wastes around,
Brought bloom and joy again,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXea dfdf gege haha ijij efefXabab
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 101011101 111101 010100101 110101 01010111 010001 110010101 110101 01110111 0101100 11010101 010101 11110101 110111 010101101 010011 11011111 010111 110100101 011101 11110101 010111 01011111 010101 11110101 110101 11010101 1000101 11111111 010101 11110111 111111 11111101 010101 11010111 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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