This is an analysis of Old Fashioned Roses by James Whitcomb Riley.
They ain't no style about 'em,
And they're sorto' pale and faded,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Ababcdcd XaXaefXf cacaabab eAXaXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1111010 11101110 10111010 101000110 00011010 1010101 10111110 1101101 1100110 10101010 11111110 11101110 0101110 1011101 1101010 1010111 1111110 1111010 1111010 11101010 10110110 1000111 11101110 0011111 1111010 1111010 10100100 11100010 001000110 1010011 10101110 0010001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, 'em
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
'em