This is an analysis of Right Here At Home by James Whitcomb Riley.
Right here at home, boys, in old Hoosierdom,
Where strangers allus joke us when they come,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXX ccddee ddaaff cXggee hhbbii ccgXee
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1111101100 1101011111 1111111100 1101111101 1101010111 1111101110 1111100111 1111111100 1101110101 1101110111 1101111111 1111111101 1111110101 1101011101 1111010101 0101011101 11101101010 1111111101 1111100111 1111001101 1101010110 1101000101 0111110111 1111111100 1111111111 1111010101 111101011 1001010111 1101110001 1111111101 1111110111 0100111101 1111000111 1111111000 111111101 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, we, to, right, home
Anaphora
right, and
Anadiplosis
right
