This is an analysis of The Plaint Human by James Whitcomb Riley.
Season of snows, and season of flowers,
Seasons of loss and gain!--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 1001110010 100111 111110101 111101 101100101 11100010 11101011001 11110010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
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