This is an analysis of A Song by James Whitcomb Riley.
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear;
There is ever a something sings alway:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AXabcbcX AAAAA AdaddadAXAAAAA
- Stanza lengths: 8,5,14,
- Metre: 1010011111 1010010110 10100110111 10100110111 011100101 1011100101 101110111 0101100100 1010011111 001011111 10100111111 1010011111 10100111 1010011111 0011110111 010110101 1010100111 011110111 101011111 11001101101 1010011111 1010011111 001011111 10100111111 1010011111 10100111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
song, and, there, ever
Anaphora
there, and
Epiphora
dear
