This is an analysis of The Evening Company by James Whitcomb Riley.
Within the sitting-room, the company
Had been increased in number. Two or three…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccdd bX eeffggabhhiijjiiddiibbjj kbkbbffbX fflljjcc jjiiddXeXkX dXbaddXXX iikkmX mddiiiiX XXXdii
- Stanza lengths: 6,2,24,9,8,11,9,6,8,6,
- Metre: 0101010100 1001010111 1101010101 1011010111 1100010100101 1101001111 1001010110 1001111001 1011010101 0110110101 10000110101 1111110111 1001010101 1101110111 0111010100 0101010111 1001100100 0111010101 0111011101 1101001100 1110011001 1101010101 0111010101 01010001111 1101001100 0100111011 10010100101 0101010111 0101010111 1100011111 1110001111 01110100101 11001001011 010110111 01011111101 101011110111 010111101 01101011011 11011101001 11101011011 111001011001 1101001101 10001010100 10101011001 1001010101 11010010011 1101010101 1101000101 1101010011 1101000111 1101001111 010010100101 0101010011 0011000111 1101011100 1111010101 11010000101 1101010111 1011010101 11110 1011 1101010101 1100011101 10010010100 1101010011 0101011101 1111110111 1001010111 1101011 111 01001010101 0101110101 0101011111 111111011 010111 1101 0110011111 0101110101 0110010111 0100010011 1111011101 111110111 111101 1111 1101 10111 110111011 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 88
Repeated words/phrases
and, he, ', with, red
Anaphora
the, of
Epiphora
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