This is an analysis of Our Own by James Whitcomb Riley.

They walk here with us, hand-in-hand;
We gossip, knee-by-knee;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11101101 110111 11111111 011100 11011101 110011 01110101 010101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

they, by, good