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…

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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