This is an analysis of The Rose by James Whitcomb Riley.
It tossed its head at the wooing breeze;
And the sun, like a bashful swain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcC dadaeC cdXdXC fgfgcC ababec acaccX bhbhcc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 010110101 10110101 11010101 0010101 111100101 110010111 01011101 01101010 1100110111 11001010 111100100 110010111 0101101001 1100101 1100110100 010111 111100100 110010111 0101100111 111101 1101010101 10100101 11110101 110010111 1111011111 1110111 0101001011 1110101 0100100100 110010111 111100101 1110111 001010101 1010101 1011100101 10011111 1101100101 0110101 10110101 00100101 1110100100 010010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
in, i
Anaphora
and
