This is an analysis of A Noted Traveler by James Whitcomb Riley.
Even in such a scene of senseless play
The children were surprised one summer-day…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeddccffddaXggeeXXaaddccdXXXXdXaXX
- Stanza lengths: 44,
- Metre: 1001010101 0100011101 1011110101 01001110100 1101010101 10011001001 1011100001 1101010101 0101000111 1111110101 0011110111 1101010101 0101111111 0111010111 0100110101 0101110101 11000100101 0101010101 1111011111 1101011101 10110011101 1111111101 1011011101 0111001101 0111010101 1101010111 0101010101 0110111100 1001010101 11110100111 1100011111 0101010100 11010010101 0101010011 01111101001 11011111000 1100110000 11001101000 11010010000 100010111 10010001000 0101010011 1101111101 0110110100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and, '
Anaphora
a, the, and
Epiphora
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