This is an analysis of Climatic Sorcery by James Whitcomb Riley.

When frost's all on our winder, an' the snow's
All out-o'-doors, our 'Old-Kriss'-milkman goes…

Read full poem

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1111110101 1111111111 0101111101 0011111111 1101011110 1101010100 1101111111 1011111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

ner