This is an analysis of He And I by James Whitcomb Riley.
Just drifting on together--
He and I--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBabcCCB cdXdeeed fBfbcccb gegehhheXaBabcCCB
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 1101010 111 1101010 001 11101010 10111010 10101010 101 1101110 111 0101010 001 11111111 10111011 10011011 101 1111010 111 1101110 111 01010110 10111110 10101010 001 1101010 101 10110010 101 1111000 10101110 10111010 001 11100010 111 01111010 111 11101010 10111010 10101010 101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
us, and
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
us
