This is an analysis of The Little Fat Doctor by James Whitcomb Riley.
He seemed so strange to me, every way--
In manner, and form, and size,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb caca dcdc XeXe XXXX abaX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111011001 0101111 001111101 11100111 01011101 1100101 110101111 0111100 110101111 1011101 111010101 1110101 11010100 010111 0101101101 00100101 111111110 11001011 110101101 111101 10101111101 0100111 01111111 10101101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
to, i, and, how
Anaphora
i, and
