This is an analysis of Natural Perversities by James Whitcomb Riley.
I am not prone to moralize
In scientific doubt…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcXXd bdbdbdbd cbXbeded fgfgdfdf hihijcjc kbkbfcfcXgdgdbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 11110101 010101 11011101 010101 11110100 0110000 11011101 0101010 11010101 110101 01110110 110101 11010101 1101010 01110101 0100010 11010100 011101 111101101 110111 11110011 0101010 11010001 1101010 11110101 110101 01010101 011100 11000101 0100010 01110001 1101110 11000101 110111 110100111 110101 11111101 11001110 11111100 0101010 11011111 010101 11011101 111101 01010101 1111110 01110101 0111010 11010101 110101 01011101 110101 11111111 1101110 11011111 1101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
i, to, we
Anaphora
i, the, we, know
