This is an analysis of Old Aunt Mary's by James Whitcomb Riley.
Wasn't it pleasant, O brother mine,
In those old days of the lost sunshine…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXC ddaaaC eedddC aaeeeC fXdddC eefffC gghhhC ddiXiC
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 100101101 011100111 0110100101 1010100101 111100111 101110 01111101 111111111 110111101 1100100101 11101001001 101110 110101101 1011100101 1010011101 10101000101 1101101111 101110 1100100101 1011110100 101110111 111101101 110111101 101110 1110100101 101011101110 011110111 100010101 1100010100 101110 0100110101 10101110011 10110100111 0100001111 1011110101 101110 10101100111 0011110101 1010110101 1010010101 1010101111 101110 111101101 000111101 01011101 010101001 010101101 101110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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