This is an analysis of A Spring Song And A Later by James Whitcomb Riley.

She sang a song of May for me,
Wherein once more I heard…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbc dedeXfXf
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 11010111 011111 01011100 0101001 01010101 110111 11010101 010111 11010101 011101 010010100 110100 01110110 010101 11110110 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

the