This is an analysis of Marthy Ellen by James Whitcomb Riley.
They's nothin' in the name to strike
A feller more'n common like!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXDXE XcffgghhX iijjXXddX eXggddXge eecciiccX XXffcXDXE
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Metre: 11000101 01010101 11000111 11010101 11111101 1101010 11010101 11010100 1111010 01011100 01000001 01110011 11110101 01000101 11000101 11011111 11000111 1101010 11010111 11110101 110011101 01111101 0111110 01010100 110111101 11101111 10101010 111011111 11100101 01010101 11010101 11111101 11110101 1100111110 11010001 1101010 10110111 01110111 010001011 01010101 11010001 01110101 11011111 11011100 10101010 11110101 01111110 01110101 11010111 11011101 1101010 11010101 11010100 1111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
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