This is an analysis of Floretty's Musical Contribution by James Whitcomb Riley.
All seemed delighted, though the elders more,
Of course, than were the children.--Thus, before…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXbbac deeffcXXXggccbbc hhijeekklm lXmnnggXgiiheeXXXj bbjjhhaaaaiik kiieeeeffjjhhllhhaaadkkiXmmmmX eeii ii X XeiX XX aaX eXbbcciXlXXlee
- Stanza lengths: 8,16,10,18,13,30,4,2,1,4,2,3,14,
- Metre: 1101010101 0110010101 1101010100 0101010101 1011011111 1111010101 1101010101 1101 11000010 01010001001 01001001101 0100110101 1101010111 0111001001 1001011101 1011011001 0111111100 10010011101 010011010111 0001010101 0101010100 0101010101 10010011001 0100 101100 0101010101 1101010100 0101001100 0101000101 1101001101 11110110101 11010010111 110110111 1101 11011001 11100 11 111 0110111011 1100010001 0101110100 011011101 111110101101 101011101 0111110101 010111010 101 11101 10110 11110100 010100 01000100 11 0101110111 1110100100 1101110100 1001010101 1100010111 1011000111 0101010001 1101010101 0101011101 11000100101 1101010101 1001100101 0110011111 1111011111 1101110101 1101010111 11010011101 1011001101 11001100101 0001000111 1001000100 0101111100 1111000100 0110010111 0101100100 1111000101 01011010001 11010011101 0100010101 1101111101 0101111101 1101011001 11010101010 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010111 11110111 1111110101 0101101111 0111010101 011111 1111 00110011111 1111110100 1111010111 11111000001 1111111111 11110011 111 1101001110 1101111111 111111 1101 1 111010101 0101010111 1111111 111 01110111110 0101011101 0111111101 0111010010 11010101001 101100001 1011001010 11001111101 1101011 111 1101010101 1001110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 124
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, to, or, you, as, '
Anaphora
of, and
Epiphora
'
Anadiplosis
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