This is an analysis of Honey Dripping From The Comb by James Whitcomb Riley.

How slight a thing may set one's fancy drifting
Upon the dead sea of the Past!--A view--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cbcb dede ffff
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11011111010 0101100101 01110101010 011111 1100110101 0111000101 1101010101 011101 1111010101 0101010111 1100010101 001101 1111110101 1001110101 1101010101 110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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