This is an analysis of To The Serenader by James Whitcomb Riley.
Tinkle on, O sweet guitar,
Let the dancing fingers…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcXc dedeafaf XgXgbhXh
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 1011101 101010 1010111 100010 1011101 101010 10111010 101010 1110011 101010 10010101 111011 10000101 101010 1010111 001010 1111101 001010 11100100 1001010 1010101 111110 1110100 101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
