This is an analysis of Man's Devotion by James Whitcomb Riley.
A lover said, 'O Maiden, love me well,
For I must go away:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd eXeX bbbb fdfX ghgh baXa idXd fjfj eXee dkdk cXci kkkX lelX kmkm
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101110111 111101 1101010101 011011 1111010101 110101 1101010101 011101 1101010101 110001 1100010101 1101001 1101111101 110111 1101010111 011111 1101010111 111111 1111111011 1111110 0101010001 0110001 0110100001 111111 1111010111 110101 1111001100 110111 1010010100 110111 1101011000 110101 1101110111 110101 1101010111 0101001 1010010101 010111 0101010101 110101 1101110101 110111 1101111101 111111 1111101111 1110001 1101110001 100100 11010111111 111101 1101100101 111111 11110110101 110111 010101001111 0001010 1101010101 111110 1111011101 110100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
and, again, long, i, '
Anaphora
and