This is an analysis of In The South by James Whitcomb Riley.
There is a princess in the South
About whose beauty rumors hum…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababccde fefeggff hdXdhhiiXdhdhhhhh
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,17,
- Metre: 10010001 01110101 11010101 01010100 11010101 11000101 01010101 11110101 11011101 11000101 01011101 11010111 11110101 01010101 010010111 010010001 10110101 110001001 01110111 01011101 11110111 11111111 011101110 011101010 11100101 11001101 11110111 10010101 11110111 10011101 0100111001 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
of, my, so
Anaphora
of
