This is an analysis of Their Sweet Sorrow by James Whitcomb Riley.
They meet to say farewell: Their way
Of saying this is hard to say--.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb Xacc XXcc ddcX eeff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11011111 01000101 110111010 011110010 110110000 10010111 100001110 100111100 01010101 01011111 010101010 110111010 101110101 11001101 110101110 110011010 01010001 01100101 110011110 110110010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
