This is an analysis of A Diverted Tragedy by James Whitcomb Riley.
Gracie wuz allus a _careless_ tot;
But Gracie dearly loved her doll,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbabbbccdX XebeXbXeb dX
- Stanza lengths: 11,9,2,
- Metre: 101100101 11010101 111010101 11111101 1010100111 11111111 11110101 11110101 00011111 11110111 101011111 11010110110 11001111 11111101 11111101 110101111 110101001 1111101010 110100101 11111101 11011111 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
her, she, ist, an'
Anaphora
an'