This is an analysis of June by James Whitcomb Riley.
Queenly month of indolent repose!
I drink thy breath in sips of rare perfume,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 101010001 1111010101 1011010101 1101010111 01010010101 0101000101 1101010111 0111010101 01010101001 1100010111 1101010101 1111011111 01110100101 1101010001
- 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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