This is an analysis of At Crown Hill by James Whitcomb Riley.

Leave him here in the fresh
greening grasses and trees…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaababccddcceebbffdddd
  • Stanza lengths: 22,
  • Metre: 111001 101011 101001101001 01011011011 010011 11001 01011101001 101101001101 01101001111 1010110010001 11111001001 101001111001 11001101111 01101001101 11001101001 101011101001 01001111001 101011101001 011101101101 1110011001101 101001011001 001101001001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

and, its, his