This is an analysis of A Home-Made Fairy Tale by James Whitcomb Riley.
Bud, come here to your uncle a spell,
And I'll tell you something you mustn't tell--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbccccaXccdXXXggccbb
- Stanza lengths: 32,
- Metre: 111011001 1111101101 100101111 11011001001 1100101001 00101111011 1011111111 10111111 111010101 101100111 11100111 0101101111 110101111 1110100110 111101101 11001001001 111010101111 0101110111 1111101001 100100100 110110111 01001101011 1111011001 11111001 1100100101 110010011 01010101 01011101 1010100101 1110110111 1111101110 0110100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, tell, you, as
Anaphora
and, i
