This is an analysis of An Old Year's Address by James Whitcomb Riley.
'I have twankled the strings of the twinkering rain;
I have burnished the meteor's mail;…
Structure
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- Guessed form:
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
have, i, and, of
Anaphora
i, with, and

