This is an analysis of How John Quit The Farm by James Whitcomb Riley.
Nobody on the old farm here but Mother, me and John,
Except, of course, the extry he'p when harvest-time come on--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Aabb ccdd ddbb bbdX aaee ffgg hhaa ggaa bbee ddaa iiaa hdddX bbgg bbcc eeee bbbb aajj iicc cceX ddXX kkaa ccdd aakX fXbb ccdX XAabb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 11110111110111 01010101110111 11110101110101 11011101010111 01010101010111 101111111101001 01111101110001 1111010111111 11111101010101 11001101111110 10100101111001 11011111010101 11010101011111 11011101011101 1100111110101101 11010101010101 11000110011001 11001100111101 11110100010011 10100101110001 11101101110111 111000101111111 10110101110101 11010100110111 101101001110101 111010111010101 1111001011110111 111110101111111 111110110011101 110101010010101 01010100110101 11111111111101 11011101110101 111001110010001 101110111110101 10111111110101 101111101110001 111001110111011 101010101111111 101110111111001 110110101111011 11110101110111 111001100010111 111011001110101 11111011101 1111 11010111110111 11111101010111 11011110010110 11100101001101 0101011010101 111001101110101 1100010101111111 11010101010101 01001101110101 1101110111011 11101101111101 11110111110101 01010001110101 01100101110111 010111001010001 01111111010111 01000101010111 1101100010101 101011001110100 10111111111101 11110111111111 11011101010001 11110101111101 111011101111111 11010101011101 11010101011111 11011001111111 11110101010101 10010101100111 1111100111001 011111111110110 11010101110101 101010101011001 01011101110110 01010101011101 11111101010101 0011101000010101 11010101001101 11111111011101 11010101010101 010011100101101 101100100010101 1011001011111111 11000101110101 1010111111101 101110101111101 0101101111111 11011100010111 110001111111010 111111011111110 11011101110110 11111111110111 11011101111101 11011101001111 01100011110111 11110111110111 01010101110111 11110101111101 11011111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 27
- Lines: 106
Repeated words/phrases
as, to, in, and, read, i, er, on, ', says, he, round, his, me, you
Anaphora
and, her, the
