This is an analysis of A Christmas Memory by James Whitcomb Riley.
Pa he bringed me here to stay
'Til my Ma she's well.--An' nen…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXaa ababacaaa XXbb dXddaa ededdXXaedffe aaXabafXX XXcaa ggbb
- Stanza lengths: 6,9,4,6,13,9,5,4,
- Metre: 11101101 1111111 1111101 1111101 1111110 1011111 1111101 1110101 101011101 11011101 1011111 1111111 1110101 111111 1111111 0111101 11101110 1011111 1011111 1110111 10111100 1110111 0111111 1111101 1110101 111011111 1111101 1011101 1111101 1110111 10111110 1011101 1111101 1010111 1110111 1101111 11011101 1111101 1011110 1111111 0111111 1001111 1111111 1110111 1101101 1110111 1111111 111111 1111100 1111101 1110111 111101 1110111 1011101 1110111 1110111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
my, an', 'uz, ma, her, to, me, ', want
Anaphora
an'
Epiphora
'
