This is an analysis of Pan by James Whitcomb Riley.
This Pan is but an idle god, I guess,
Since all the fair midsummer of my dreams…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101110111 1101110011 1101001101 1001110100 1101010101 1100110101 0101111101 1001100001 0111010011 0101000101 1101110101 1100011101 1111011001 1001011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
