This is an analysis of Romancin' by James Whitcomb Riley.
I' b'en a-kindo musin', as the feller says, and I'm
About o' the conclusion that they ain't no better time,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdee Xfbb eeff eedd ddgg eehh aaXc bbaa fXaa iibb ddXX aajj
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101010110 01100101111101 111010101011101 111111111010111 11110111011101 101011111110101 11110011010001 110011001010101 11110101010100 10100010110101 11111101110111 111100101111111 11110101010101 101010101110101 111111101110111 101011101110101 111110101001111 101111101011100 101010101010101 101010101011101 01010101010101 101010100010101 101100101011101 11111101110111 11000100011101 111010101010101 11000101110001 111000101010001 11010111111001 101110111011001 11010101010010 11111101011101 11110101110101 011010101010101 10101110011101 111001101010101 111110101011101 001010100110100 111110101111001 111010101010001 111010101010101 111010101010101 11010101110101 11101101010101 111110101011101 111010101010001 111011101010101 101010100010001 11111101010110 11000101111101 111010101011111 111111111111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
you, and, i, so, o', in, they's, music, our, kin, as
Anaphora
when, and
