This is an analysis of No Boy Knows by James Whitcomb Riley.
There are many things that boys may know--
Why this and that are thus and so,--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdD bbeebbdD ffeeggdD XXeehhXD
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 111011111 10111111 110100111 01110100 11111001 11101111 11101111 111111101 11101111 111011111 11101101101 100101101 111100101 100101101 110110111 111111101 011110111 0100110111 111100101 011111111 1111100101 1011110101 0011110111 111111101 11110110110 0010110101 0010100101 110101101 00100110111 110100101 011110101 111111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, when, they, i
Anaphora
when
