This is an analysis of Illileo by James Whitcomb Riley.
Illileo, the moonlight seemed lost across the vales--
The stars but strewed the azure as an armor's scattered scales;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbbb cccc dddd cccc aXaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 100011110101 011100101110101 01010101010101 111101010101000 1001000010101 011010101010101 11011100010101 1100010010111 1101100110101 101010100110101 1110101000010001 111101101011101 1001101011011 101010111111100 101010111010111 101011111111101 11011100110101 111011100110101 11110011010001 111001000100101 1001000011101 101010101110100 01100101110101 001111101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, i, should
Anaphora
the, and
