This is an analysis of The Boys by James Whitcomb Riley.

Where are they?--the friends of my childhood enchanted--
The clear, laughing eyes looking back in my own,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaccb dbdeebXcbcccb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,13,
  • Metre: 111010111010 01101101011 1011010111110 111110 110010 11011101001 1010011110010 01001100111 1110010110110 110011 011111 01111101001 111110011010 01001101001 10101111010110 110110 011010 01001101001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

my

Anaphora

of