This is an analysis of To A Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant.
Whither, midst falling dew,
While glow the heavens with the last steps of day…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc Xdcd efef dede dfdf gfgf gfgX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101101 11010001101 1111011101 110101 100101 1111010111 1101010101 110101 110101 0101110101 1101010111 101101 1001011 1011011101 010110001 1100111 111111 1111011101 1111000101 101101 111111 1111010111 1101110111 1101101 11001010 1101111111 10110101110 111101 110101 1101011101 0011111101 011110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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