This is an analysis of Doc Sifers by James Whitcomb Riley.
Of all the doctors I could cite you to in this-'ere town
Doc Sifers is my favorite, jes' take him up and down!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd XXbb eeaa ffgg aahh Xeee iiaa cccec iicX iXacj ikkbX ggbb iihXXcjee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,5,5,4,9,
- Metre: 01010111100011 11001100111111 10010100110111 11010110110101 11111111110101 11110101110101 11110111110101 11101101110100 11011111110111 111101011010110 11110100010101 11001101010101 11111111110101 01010111111101 11010101011100 11110101010001 01011101010101 01110001010101 11010101010001 110101110101101 10010101110111 01010111100101 110101011111101 1010010111101011 11110101010100 11010100110110 010101111110111 011100011010001 11010100111111 0110101111001 11010101010011 010111010111101 11100101111101 11110101110101 11110001111111 11011011111111 1 111111111100111 1110101111101110 11110101010111 110101111111101 1111110111101101 11110101111011 1111110101011 1 110100101010101 0101111111011 1 11110101011111 11111111010111 010101010101010 11111111011001 11010101111001 11010011011111 11010111110101 11011101110101 11010111111101 11001101011111 11010101110110 11110101110011 11000100110101 11110101010101 11011101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 63
Repeated words/phrases
and, his, er, i, her, ', to, all, far
Anaphora
and
