This is an analysis of Herr Weiser by James Whitcomb Riley.
Herr Weiser--! Three-score-years-and-ten--,
A hale white rose of his country-men,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaadd cceeffccaa gghicccXaa ccjjhikkkg
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,10,
- Metre: 11011011 011100101 010100101 110010101 110011111 1011100101 10100101 111100111 111101111 11100101 10110101 10010111 100110101 1010100101 100111101 10011101 11001111 0101001101 1011010111 0101101101 11000101 1010100111 01010100 01010111 1110100101 10100100101 101010111 010101100 1101101101 10011111 110100101 110100111 110100101 110101101 111100100 001111101 010100110 1110100100 1110100111 100100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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