This is an analysis of Luther Benson by James Whitcomb Riley.
AFTER READING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
POOR victim of that vulture curse…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeedd ddfagghhfa ccbbiigXcc Xfjjkkjjbb
- Stanza lengths: 1,10,10,10,10,
- Metre: 10100100100 11001101 110100101 01010101 010010101 11010111 01010101 11110001 01110101 10011111 01010101 11111111 11010101 01111101 01110100 111101001 01001100 11010101 11100101 11110001 11101100 11010111 11000101 01010001 01010101 11000101 01010101 11010011 110110111 11110101 01111101 11110101 01010101 01010101 11010101 01110111 01010101 11110101 01011111 11010111 11011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
you, of, and
Anaphora
and
