This is an analysis of A Child-World by James Whitcomb Riley.

_The Child-World--long and long since lost to view--
A Fairy Paradise!--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabb cdcdd bbbbb edeXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 0111111101 010101 1111011111 1100100101111 010001 1001000101 011101 1101010101 0101100111 010100 0101010101 011001 0101010100 01010100001 111001 1111001111 111101 1101011101 0111011100 111001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

how, the