This is an analysis of Who Bides His Time by James Whitcomb Riley.
Who bides his time, and day by day
Faces defeat full patiently,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXbbB cdcdebeB cecefXfB
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 110011111 10011100 11010100 11010100 10110101 01000101 00110001 11001 110011101 01000101 11110101 11011101 01110001 11010101 01110001 11001 110011101 00111101 11110101 01010001 11110101 1101101001 01110101 11001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
his
Anaphora
who, and