This is an analysis of A New Year's Plaint by James Whitcomb Riley.
In words like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaabc dedeffff ebebfbfb ggggeheh aaaadfdf fafafbfbXcecedbdb
- Stanza lengths: 5,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 011111110 11010101 11111101 010011111 100 01111101 110101001 11010101 11010101 1101001 01010001 11110101 10011101 11010101 11110101 01010001 11011101 11110101 11000101 10010101 11110001 11011101 11000101 11110101 11000101 11010111 01000111 01010111 10110101 11001111 10010101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01010101 11110111 11000101 11010001 01010101 11011101 11010111 01000101 11011101 11110101 11111101 01010101 11011101 01100101 11110111 11110101 11111101 110100011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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