Analysis of Company Manners

James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)



When Bess gave her Dollies a Tea, said she,--
'It's unpolite, when they's Company,
To say you've drinked _two_ cups, you see,--
But say you've drinked _a couple_ of tea.'


Scheme AAAA
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Rubaiyat 
Metre 111010111 1111100 11111111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 175
Words 35
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. more…

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