This is an analysis of Thomas The Pretender by James Whitcomb Riley.
Tommy's alluz playin' jokes,
An' actin' up, an' foolin' folks;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbXcc XaddddXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 1010101 11011101 111111 01111011 11110111 1111010 11111111 11011101 111101110 11011101 011101 11111111 11011101 110101 111011111 11111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
an', he
Anaphora
an'