This is an analysis of Elmer Brown by James Whitcomb Riley.
Awf'lest boy in this-here town
Er anywheres is Elmer Brown!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbX ccddX eeffX eeccX ddggX ffXXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 1010011 010000101 11111101 11011111 100111 1110111 11010111 11011101 110011011 100111 11110101 110111010 11011111 01111101 100111 11011101 11101001 11011101 11010011 100111 11011111 011101111 00010101 110110101 100111 11011111 10010111 10111111 11111110 100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
an'
Anaphora
an', him
