This is an analysis of Them Flowers by James Whitcomb Riley.
Take a feller 'at's sick and laid up on the shelf,
All shaky, and ga'nted, and pore--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcccc dedeXfXf ggggdhdh
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 101011111101 11011011 11111111011 001101101 111101001001 11101111 11111111001 11111111 110111101011 101011101 01011011001 001101011 11111101001 111101001 11111111010 11001011 11010101000 010111001 001001111010 101011101 11101001011 101111011 11011011011 001001111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, as, him, his, my, eyes
Anaphora
and