This is an analysis of Dearth by James Whitcomb Riley.
I hold your trembling hand to-night-- and yet
I may not know what wealth of bliss is mine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcXcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11110010111 1111110101 1101010001 0111001111 1111110101 1101011111 1101010001 1111010101 1101001101 1111111101 0101110111 1111110100 0101000100 11011011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
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