This is an analysis of Intellectual Limitations by James Whitcomb Riley.

Parunts knows lots more than us,
But they don't know _all_ things,--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaaa bXXX cdad bXXcX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,5,
  • Metre: 1011111 111111 0110111 1011011 1110101 101010 1010101 001010 1111101 111011 1110101 101011 1110111 1110010 1111111 1110111 110010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 17