This is an analysis of When She Comes Home by James Whitcomb Riley.

When she comes home again! A thousand ways
I fashion, to myself, the tenderness…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbabcbcbb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1100110100 0111011101 1101110011 1101011110 1111111101 1101001001 0101010101 1111010101 1111011001 0111110101 0111110101 1101010101 0101000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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