This is an analysis of We Must Get Home by James Whitcomb Riley.
We must get home! How could we stray like this?--
So far from home, we know not where it is,--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaabb ccdddD ddeeff ggffdD bbhhee ggeedD bbeeaa XabbdD iibbbb gXdddD ffjjdD
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1111111110 1101111100 10011101001 0101010101 1101010101 10001010101 1111111001 1101010101 1111011111 0100010101 01101010111 1111111101 1111011111 0101111101 0111000101 0111010101 11010010111 01001111111 1111011101 1111011111 1101110111 1111011101 1111010111 1111111101 1111100101 0101010101 11001011101 11101011101 0111000101 1101110101 1111101101 0101011111 1101011011 0110010101 0101010101 1111111101 0101010101 01010111001 01011000101 1001110111 0101010101 1101100101 1111111111 1101110101 1111110101 0111110111 1111111101 1111111101 1111011101 1111010101 1001000101 1101001111 1111110101 1101110100 11111100001 1101010100 100100100101 0101110111 10101111001 1111111101 1111011111 1101010001 1100111101 0111010101 01001001111 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 66
Repeated words/phrases
we, our, all, must
Anaphora
we, when, and