This is an analysis of When Lide Married _Him_ by James Whitcomb Riley.
When Lide married _him_--w'y, she had to jes dee-fy
The whole poppilation!--But she never bat' an eye!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbbXX aaccddee ccXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 111011110111 0110001110111 01011101111111 11110101111000 11011101 1110101 110110001110111 111010110101 111011110110 010101111110101 11111111111111 01011111011111 1010111 1110101 111101011100100 111011110101 111010101110 010100011101110 110101010101010 00111011000111110 1110111 10101110 110011101110111 1101110111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
she, him, he, could, to, ', and
Anaphora
when
