This is an analysis of A Delicious Interruption by James Whitcomb Riley.
All were quite gracious in their plaudits of
Bud's Fairy; but another stir above…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeXXbbcc XXffbbeecX
- Stanza lengths: 18,10,
- Metre: 1011001100 1101010101 1101010101 11010001001 1101000101 0101011001 0100111101 0011111101 1101010111 1111011111 0110111111 1110111101 1110011101 11110010100 0101010111 11001010111 0101011101 1001000101 1101010101 0100010100 1101111001 110010101 1101010101 1011001100 111010111 1111010101 1111111001 11010111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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