Analysis of The Boy's Candidate
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Las' time 'at Uncle Sidney come,
He bringed a watermelon home--
An' half the boys in town,
Come taggin' after him.--An' he
Says, when we et it,--_'Gracious me!
'S the boy-house fell down?'_
| Scheme | ABCDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 1101001 110101 1110111 1111111 101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 192 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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