This is an analysis of Cousin Rufus' Story by James Whitcomb Riley.
My little story, Cousin Rufus said,
Is not so much a story as a fact.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccdbaee Xfgaheaicaeah bXjeiklelm cdXniolpbXpcqlfehXklbabbkkgpbbaaaeaXflrap kiqlhbfmraebplnXcmnoaeoblbablbieiakshbscbbbXn XeggnagnhmfbkXjnfXm mXXcsbblc bbmkgbbXXsklamrXX
- Stanza lengths: 9,13,10,41,45,19,9,17,
- Metre: 1101010101 0111010101 0001010101 1011010101 1001011101 1100010101 1110010101 0101010101 1100100 1100 1101000100 0100110101 1111010111 1111010111 11010001011 1001011101 1001011100 1001110101 10001011111 11111001010 0111010011 1111110101 01010100001 1111010001 1100010011 11001010111 0101110100 1000110001 0011011101 0101011101 0101010001 1100110111 1111010101 1111010001 1101010101 0101010111 11010010100 1001010001 1001110101 11010101010 1101111111 1101110100 010100111110 1111010101 01100010100 1011011101 0101010101 11000100101 1101011111 110001100100 1101110111 1100111101 1111010101 0101011111 1101010100 1001010001 01001000101 1101001111 0101001101 00010101010 1111000101 1101010101 1111110011 0111111101 1101001110 0101000101 1101010101 0101011110 0101001100 1101010101 1101110011 01000100111 1010011010 1 1100010100 1111111110 01010100100 01011100011 1101111111 0101010100 0101010011 10111010101 0100101001 11101110010 1001110101 010111101010 1111010101 100100001111 11110011101 1001010001 1101010101 1111110111 1111011101 1101111101 1101110001 1111011101 1111111101 10010010101 11011001001 1111010110 0101010111 0101010100 11000100001 1011010100 00111110101 01110010100 110111110001 01101010001 1101000101 1101011111 1011011101 1110011100 0101110101 0101010101 1001010101 1010010101 11010101000 1101 010101 10110011111 01001100111 1101110111 11011001101 1101110011 1101011011 0110111011 1101110011 1111011101 1101110101 1111010001 1001000101 100101001000 1101010101 0101011101 1111010100 101010100 111001011 1 1111110110 011111011 11010101100 0101001111 1001001111 0101110101 0101011111 010101 1111 11001101111 1100010101 0101010101 1111101101 1101110111 0101010101 1101001000 1111000101 1111011101 10010010100 0101011101 110000100001 1101010111 1110010100 0111011100 1111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 163
Repeated words/phrases
his, had, he, and, of, no
Anaphora
and, an, the, to
Epiphora
boy
Anadiplosis
coughed
