This is an analysis of In Bohemia by James Whitcomb Riley.
Ha! My dear! I'm back again--
Vendor of Bohemia's wares!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcXXd dedebbdd fafaggdd dbdXaadd bXhXhXdd bXbcbbdd ijijggdd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11110101 1001001 1110101 1011101 1110101 1111101 1110100 1110111 00100111 1000101 1011101 1001101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010111 1011111 1110001 1110101 1110111 0111110 10110101 1111111 1110111 1111111 1110111 11100101 10110111 1010100 1001111 1010101 0110111 1011100 0110111 1010101 1111100 1110101 1111011 1110111 0010111 1111101 1010100 1110101 0011111 1110101 0110001 1010101 1010111 1011111 0011101 1010111 1010111 1010110 1011101 1110111 1011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
your, my, and, it
Anaphora
when
Epiphora
dear
