This is an analysis of John Brown by James Whitcomb Riley.
Writ in between the lines of his life-deed
We trace the sacred service of a heart…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdXcdb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001010011 1101010001 1000010101001 1011010101 0101010101 0111011101 0101110101 0011110101 1101011001 0101110111 0101000110 1111010101 1111011101 1101011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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