This is an analysis of The Hereafter by James Whitcomb Riley.
Hereafter! O we need not waste
Our smiles or tears, whatever befall:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 01011111 111111001 11001101 01010101 11010011 11000101 11011011 010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
