This is an analysis of An Impetuous Resolve by James Whitcomb Riley.
When little Dickie Swope's a man,
He's go' to be a Sailor;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcbab ddXdcXXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 110101001 1100010 11010101 0100010 11010100 0101010 11110111 0100010 1110101 1111010 11110101 1101110 11111111 1111100 01011101 1001100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
an'
Anaphora
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