This is an analysis of Her Beautiful Eyes by James Whitcomb Riley.

O her beautiful eyes! they are as blue as the dew
On the violet's bloom when the morning is new,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeecc bbffcc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1010011111101 10101101001 101011001001 10011001101111 101101101001 111001001001 101001111101 101011001001 101001001001 101011001011 101001001101 111001001001 101001111011 101011001001 111111011101 101011101001 111001011001 111101001001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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