This is an analysis of A Summer Afternoon by James Whitcomb Riley.
A languid atmosphere, a lazy breeze,
With labored respiration, moves the wheat…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dcdc edeX baba cccc dfdf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 10110111 1101001101 1101000101 1101010101 1000010101 1101110001 0111000101 0101010101 111101 0101110011 1100110101 0101010101 10111010 0101110011 1001000101 0101110101 01000110101 0100100101 1101010101 1101010111 1001010101 1100110101 0111111101 1101110001 10101101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
through, coo, i
Anaphora
the
