This is an analysis of A Water-Color by James Whitcomb Riley.

Low hidden in among the forest trees
An artist's tilted easel, ankle-deep…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 1100010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 0101110101 0101011001 0101010011 0101000101 1001110001 11001011101 1111011101 0101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

in, and

Anaphora

a