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…
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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