This is an analysis of A Life-Lesson by James Whitcomb Riley.
There! little girl; don't cry!
They have broken your doll, I know;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbbbBaA AbccBaAXAbccBaA
- Stanza lengths: 7,15,
- Metre: 110111 11101111 11111 11111 1100101 110100111 110111 110111 11101111 10111 01101 1100101 11110111 110111 110111 11101111 10111 01101 1100101 110111111 110111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
your
Anaphora
and, there
Epiphora
cry
