This is an analysis of At Utter Loaf by James Whitcomb Riley.
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An afternoon as ripe with heat…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a babaX X cddcaX X eeeeXee X bcbcffX a gXXgagaX
- Stanza lengths: 1,5,1,6,1,7,1,7,1,8,
- Metre: 1 11011101 11010100 01000111 01100101 11010100 1 01011101 11100111 01010101 11010111 01011101 10011100 1 01110101 011010111 11010101 01011101 11011101 11000011 11110101 1 11111101 01110101 11010001 11000101 01011111 01111111 10110100 1 11111101 11011111 01010100 11000101 11011101 11111011 111000111 10111100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
me, and
