This is an analysis of A Dost O' Blues by James Whitcomb Riley.
I' got no patience with blues at all!
And I ust to kindo talk…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc dededada fXfebddd ghghiXeX XdXdihfX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 111100111 1110101 1001110111 11100101 1010010100 1100111 110101100 1110101 110111100 10101101 1010100111 1111101 1010101101 10101101 10110100101 11010101 1101011011 0100100 010101101 1111010 00101101001 0010101 111010101 1110111 1111100101 1011101 1011101101 1010111 111111110 111111 1011100101 1101111 110100101 11110111 110111100 1011111 11010011 1101101 011111101 1011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
in, and
Anaphora
they'd, er, and
