This is an analysis of Unless by James Whitcomb Riley.
Who has not wanted, does not guess
What plenty is.--Who has not groped…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbbc dbdbacca aeaebXdb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 11110111 11001111 01011100 110101 0101011 01011101 10010101 011100 11110101 11011111 01011111 110100 01011101 11110100 11011100 010111 11111101 11001110 01011011 110101 11111111 11010100 11111101 101111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
not, has, and, knows