This is an analysis of For You by James Whitcomb Riley.
For you, I could forget the gay
Delirium of merriment,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXabccdD eeeebbdD afXfggdX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 11110101 01000100 11110101 01010010 11011111 01010011 010011101 11110111 11010110 01111101 01110111 11111111 11111101 01011111 11010111 11110111 11110111 11111101 01001100 11010101 11111101 01111101 01111101 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
i, that
Anaphora
what
