This is an analysis of When Age Comes On by James Whitcomb Riley.
When Age comes on!--
'The deepening dusk is where the dawn…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AabXbaaAba AacXcaaAca X aadD eedDXdddD
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,1,4,9,
- Metre: 1111 110010101 11010101 01010111 11011111 11010101 11111111 1111 11011101 11011111 1111 110100101 11010111 11111111 11011101 11111111 11111111 1111 11111101 11011111 10 1101011111 0110011001 1001110001 1101 1101010101 0111010101 01110011101 1101 1100010101 0101010101 1100010011 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
and, comes, age, on, into, or, with, of
Anaphora
and, its
Epiphora
on
Anadiplosis
dawn