This is an analysis of The Little Coat by James Whitcomb Riley.
Here's his ragged 'roundabout';
Turn the pockets inside out:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabbXXaabbbXccaX ddeeeeaaXXffggXX hhiigghhXbccffbb
- Stanza lengths: 16,16,16,
- Metre: 1010100 1010011 1011101 1010101 1010111 0010101 0010111 1010001 1010101 1010101 1010111 1011100 10110111 1010101 1100101 101 1010111 10101011 1110111 1011101 1011111 0010100 1011101 1110111 1011101 1110101 1000111 1110111 1110001 10100101 1010101 01 1010111 1011101 1111101 1111101 1110110 1010111 1110111 1011101 1010100 10010101 10011101 1011101 1010101 0010111 1111101 101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, you
Anaphora
every
Epiphora
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