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,…
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