This is an analysis of The Rainy Morning by James Whitcomb Riley.
The dawn of the day was dreary,
And the lowering clouds o'erhead…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXaabXb cbcbdded cfcfedXd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 01001110 101001100 1001010 1011111 101110010 1110101 101110011 11000101 111001010 0111001 10111010 10110101 11101010 1100001 110010011 1100100 11111010 0011101 00111110 1010110 110111010 110111 101101010 100101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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