This is an analysis of Curly Locks by James Whitcomb Riley.
_Curly Locks! Curly Locks! wilt thou be mine?
Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the swine,--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AABB Aacc Aadd Bbee BbffXAABB
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1011011101 111101011101 11101011011 11011101011 1011011101 01011001001 101001011011 001001101011 111101011101 11111011001 101001011010 101011011011 11101011011 11111011101 01011101011 101011101011 11011101011 001001001001 111011111011 11011001011 1011011101 111101011101 11101011011 11011101011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, my
Anaphora
and
