This is an analysis of The Child-World by James Whitcomb Riley.
A Child-World, yet a wondrous world no less,
To those who knew its boundless happiness.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdbbbbXeaaffcceeccbbffggeecX dXccffffhhccddhhaaeebXhh ddggaXiiddbX ffffaaggccbbjd ggdd hhkk llhh ddkk gXkkddaXgghhaaccbXdddjffffffeehXhhffccbbffeecc
- Stanza lengths: 34,24,12,14,4,4,4,4,46,
- Metre: 0111010111 0111010100 0101111101 1111010001 1101010101 0101010101 0101110111 0101010001 11010011101 1101010001 0101110111 110001111 0001011110 1111011101 0101010100 0111110001 0101010101 01010001001 0110110001 0101010011 1101110101 1111010101 11100101001 0111010011 1011010101 1001110101 0111000111 11010011001 0111100111 11100100001 1111111101 1100111101 10010011111 11110111110 01111100001 01010111000 1001011101 01110111001 0101010111 0101011111 0111110101 1101110111 1101110100 0101110111 1111011101 1101110101 0101010101 0101000101 1011011101 1101010100 1101010011 0011110111 1101010101 0111110101 1100110111 11000111010 1101010101 0101010001 0101101101 1101011101 1111010101 1101110101 0111111001 0011101000 1101010001 1101010111 100101011 1101111101 1111110111 1101110101 1111010101 0101010101 00110000101 0101110011 0101010011 1101110101 1001010001 0101011101 0111011101 1101111111 1111010111 11000101 01110100100 011110101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010011 111001 1101010111 0101011111 1111110101 111101 1101011111 0100011101 0001010111 110101 1101011111 1101011101 1101100101 111101 1011000101 1101011101 1011010101 0101010111 0111000101 0110010001 01010101001 0101010101 11010110111 1100010101 1100110111 1101010111 1101011101 1011010101 1101010101 1111110001 1101110101 0101111100 1001110101 1111110101 0001010001 11000100100 0101010111 0101000111 0101000111 1111010011 0111110111 111110101 1001010101 1001100111 11100100001 1100010101 1101010101 1101110111 1101010111 1111110101 0101010101 0101010101 1011010111 0111110001 0110011101 1111110111 0100110101 0101000101 0101010001 0101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 146
Repeated words/phrases
as, of, and, blue, there
Anaphora
of, and, he, there, the
