This is an analysis of The Same Old Story by James Whitcomb Riley.
The same old story told again--
The maiden droops her head,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXeaefedeceXgggaeXXXhahXXfX
- Stanza lengths: 32,
- Metre: 01110101 010101 0100100101 0100001 0101001001 010001 11010111 011101 010010101 100011 11101101 100111 11111100 010101 1100010 1110101 0101010 110001 1101110 110001 1111010 010110 11101110 0111001 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 11110110 11010110 01011101 1110110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
her, his, and
Anaphora
the
