This is an analysis of Wortermelon Time by James Whitcomb Riley.
Old wortermelon time is a-comin' round again,
And they ain't no man a-livin' any tickleder'n me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBAB cdeXcce afgag dcdc Xgghgh Xhibhb dgedXX XcgXc cXgXcXg dcXc Xdc babaa dgfigXiXaBAB
- Stanza lengths: 4,7,5,4,6,6,6,5,7,4,3,5,12,
- Metre: 1100010010101 11111010101001 101110101000001 10011100111101 10001011000101 1011111000111 01 11110111101 1 11111010101001 1 111101001001 111111011010 1 1111110101001 110101101111 011010111101 10111101000001 10101011101011 001100101001 111110111000 1 01101011110 1 1101110001001 11001111001 111011111000 1 111010100010 111 1101010110001 1111001110101 110111011101 11111011101 01 10111010100101 11110110110 111 11101010110101 1000010111101 111101011101 11101110100 101 1100101110101 0101000101001 1 11110111110 101 001010101010 101 11101000101010 1 10100010001010 01 01010101000101 1001011111011 1 11101010111101 00101011011101 1010101001101 10111010101010 1 11001011101011 1 10101011111110 1 11100100011111 10111011101010 1 10100010010101 11111010101001 101110101000001 10011100111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 73
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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