This is an analysis of The Wind And Stream by William Cullen Bryant.
A brook came stealing from the ground;
You scarcely saw its silvery gleam…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cbcbbb XbXbbb dbdbbb ebebbb
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 01110001 110101001 01011101 01000101 01010101 01010101 011100001 11010001 1101000101 11010101 01010101 01110001 010101110 110100101 101100111 110101001 010101001 01010101 010101001 01010101 0100011101 11011101 01010101 01010101 11011101 11010111 11010101 01011101 01010101 010100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
stream, and
Anaphora
the, to
Epiphora
stream