This is an analysis of Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley.
To all the little children: -- The happy ones; and sad ones;
The sober and the silent ones; the boisterous and glad ones;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbccddefFege aahhiieFFege ddjjkkeFFege fXbbjjefFege
- Stanza lengths: 3,12,12,12,12,
- Metre: 01010100101111 010101010100111 001100111101011 101011101101 11011101110101 11010101110111 110101101110111 11110101010101 110101010110101 0100011110101 10101111 11 1 1 1 111010110101 111101110111 01011101010111 1111010111111 1110100101110111 1101101011101011 11110111011101 10101111 11 1 1 1 1110101110111 1110101110111 1111110011111 110110111101 1111101110111 1111111010101 111010101111101 10101111 11 1 1 1 1101010110101 101110101111 111010110101 1010101011001 11011101110111 1100111110101 11011101110101 00101111 11 1 1 1
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 51
Repeated words/phrases
ones, and, to, an', him, she, you
Anaphora
the, an'
