This is an analysis of Friday Afternoon by James Whitcomb Riley.
To William Morris Pierson
[1868-1870]…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aX bCbCBAXX dadaefef fgXgdhdh bbXbaiXX XXjkelel lmlmdjdX Xcdcgaga bgbgXXeX ijXXhmhX ieiejgXX fkfkdXdX elXlbgbX aXaXaXaX biXXfafX ffffdmdm bCbCBAXX
- Stanza lengths: 2,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0101010 11 00101110 11100101 0111010 1010101 1111010 010101 1101000 110100 1101010 0010101 10101010 0011101 11101010 1110101 01111010 1011101 1101100 1010001 0101100 1010101 0101010 1010001 0101010 10101001 0101010 1010101 1101110 010101 1001010 0101001 0101100 100100010 0100111 111101 1111010 111101 0101010 110101 1101010 10010001 11010110 1010011 1101010 0011101 1111010 1110100 1101110 1110111 10101010 0010111 0101010 0010101 11111010 1011101 1111111 1111101 11111010 0111111 0111010 0111101 1101110 10111010 11111110 1011101 10000010 10100100 001000100 1110001 1101110 0110101 10100010 0010111 10101011 00100010 11010011 10101010 10101010 01101001 1101010 110101 10101010 1010101 0101010 0010101 1101010 001101 1101010 111101 10101010 1010001 00100110 1010101 10101110 1010101 1100010 1110101 0101010 010001 0100010 0011101 1100010 011110 0110010 1010111 10101010 0010001 1100100 1110100 1101010 1010001 10101010 10111011 1110010 1010101 1100010 110101 0101010 110111 1101010 0011101 10101110 11100101 10111010 1010101 1111010 010101 1101000 110100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 132
Repeated words/phrases
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