This is an analysis of The Home-Going by James Whitcomb Riley.
We must get home--for we have been away
So long it seems forever and a day!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbB ccddbB cceebB XXffbB cXbbbB
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1111111001 1101010101 1111011111 0100010101 01101010111 1111111101 1111011101 1111011111 1101110111 1111011101 1111010111 1111111101 1111101101 0101011111 1101011011 0110010101 0101010101 1111111101 1111111111 1101110101 1111110101 0111110111 1111111101 1111111101 11111100001 1101010100 100100100101 0101110111 10101111001 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
we, must, get, home, our
Anaphora
we, when
