This is an analysis of Jap Miller by James Whitcomb Riley.
Jap Miller down at Martinsville's the blamedest feller yit!
When _he_ starts in a-talkin' other folks is apt to quit!--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabbbXcc XXdeeffgg eeaaddXa eeddbbgX
- Stanza lengths: 8,9,8,8,
- Metre: 1101110000100101 11100101010101 1111111111101 11010001110011 11111100111111 11011101110101 10010101110011 11110101111101 101000101010101 11011001111011 110101111 10111 11110111111101 11010101010101 10111100110001 11011101110101 101010100010001 11011101100101 11110101011101 11010100010001 11110100111111 11110101011111 11001100011101 11110101011110 11011100110101 11111100011001 11111101001101 111010101110101 11010101011111 11110010111111 01000111110101 01110101110101 11011100011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
he'll, and, you, er, no, in, cuss'd
Anaphora
and, they
