Explain the line 'sweet flowing ditty no more'.
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More repeated 'l' sounds ('hazels', 'melody', 'flowing') create Cowper's 'sweet-flowing ditty', whose subdued metaphor echoes the literal waters of the Ouse in the first stanza. ... Its sentiments, notably in stanzas four and five, are sad, not to say gloomy. Regret is an entirely natural response to the felling of trees
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