This is an analysis of Heat-Lightning by James Whitcomb Riley.
There was a curious quiet for a space
Directly following: and in the face…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddffeeaadXgg hfhX ccXiddddeeeeh eejjddiXeeff jXjXXee
- Stanza lengths: 22,4,13,12,7,
- Metre: 11010010101 0101001001 011100100111 0011011101 1101011101 01010010111 11110010101 0101000101 1101010101 0100110111 1101000101 1101001101 01011101001 1111010101 0100111111 01010010101 1101011111 10011110101 1111110101 0101111101 10010100100 1101110100 10101010 1110111 10101010 10100101 11001010101 1101001101 1101010101 01010011101 1111010111 0110011111 0100110101 1111100111 1101000111 11010010111 1100110011 0101111101 010101010 1 1101010101 0100110101 1111010101 1111010101 0111010101 1101010111 1111001100 1111011001 0100110111 1101000011 1101011101 100010101 1101010010000 10001110101 110111001100 0101110101 1111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 57
Repeated words/phrases
it, he, and, my, of
Anaphora
of, it
