This is an analysis of A Rough Sketch by James Whitcomb Riley.
I caught, for a second, across the crowd--
Just for a second, and barely that--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc cdcdee
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,
- Metre: 1110100101 110101101 011101101 1001001101 011100111 101111101 1111010101 110110111 10100110111 101101101 00110100101 1110100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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