This is an analysis of Das Krist Kindel by James Whitcomb Riley.
I had fed the fire and stirred it, till the sparkles in delight
Snapped their saucy little fingers at the chill December night;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXb ccdd cXcee ccff ggdX hhaea ibijj eeee bbkk XXcc eLEe bbbb fcfff eLEX bbjkX
- Stanza lengths: 5,4,5,4,4,5,5,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,5,
- Metre: 1110101101010001 111010101010101 10101110111011 10 01110101110101 111010101010101 101010111010101 101101101010001 11000100010101 101001101010101 00101010101100 1 11110101010101 001011101010001 10010101010001 11010100010101 01111100011101 101011100010001 11010100110101 101010101110101 11010100010101 11010110001100 11011101110101 01010100010101 111101011100111 110110110101011 1 111001101111101 11101011101010 1 111110101010101 01011101010100 111110101010001 101010101010101 111011100110001 11010101010101 101010100010101 11011101010100 111111101010111 101010101110001 111010101010100 1101010010111 111011101010101 110100100010001 101000101010101 101000101010101 11110101110101 11111100100001 11001101111111 101110110010101 10010100010111 111010100011101 111010101110101 101010110111101 1 111011101010101 01000101011101 101000101010101 101000101010101 11110101110101 11111100100001 101010100010001 11000111010101 111010101110100 1101010101010 1
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 66
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, i, like, they, with, you
Anaphora
and
