This is an analysis of A Worn-Out Pencil by James Whitcomb Riley.
Welladay!
Here I lay…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaabb caadd eeeac eeefX eeeee aaXff ggghh
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 100 111 1111101 1110001 0110101 100 101 1111100 1010001 11111001 111 101 1111101 1010110 1000100 001 101 0010101 1010101 0110101 111 101 1011101 1010101 1001100 101 111 1110000 1011111 1011101 111 110 1010101 111101 0011101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 35
Anaphora
when, your
Anadiplosis
yet
