Analysis of Kneeling With Herrick
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Dear Lord, to Thee my knee is bent.--
Give me content--
Full-pleasured with what comes to me,
What e'er it be:
An humble roof--a frugal board,
And simple hoard;
The wintry fagot piled beside
The chimney wide,
While the enwreathing flames up-sprout
And twine about
The brazen dogs that guard my hearth
And household worth:
Tinge with the ember's ruddy glow
The rafters low;
And let the sparks snap with delight,
As ringers might
That mark deft measures of some tune
The children croon:
Then, with good friends, the rarest few
Thou holdest true,
Ranged round about the blaze, to share
My comfort there,--
Give me to claim the service meet
That makes each seat
A place of honor, and each guest
Loved as the rest.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKKLLMMNN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 1110 1111111 11011 11010101 0101 0101101 0101 101111 0101 01011111 011 1101101 0101 01011101 1101 11110111 0101 11110101 111 11010111 1101 11110101 1111 01110011 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 692 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 554 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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