This is an analysis of An Old Friend by James Whitcomb Riley.
Hey, Old Midsummer! are you here again,
With all your harvest-store of olden joys,--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaabcc dcddcee fgffghh
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
- Metre: 1111011101 0111010101 1101011101 1101111101 1001110101 1101001001 1101011101 0111000111 1001100111 1101110101 11111100101 01010010101 101110110111 0111110101 1101110001 1111010101 0111010101 11001011101 11010011111 1011101101 1001111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
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