Analysis of Extremes
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
A little boy once played so loud
That the Thunder, up in a thunder-cloud,
Said, 'Since I can't be heard, why, then
I'll never, never thunder again!'
And a little girl once kept so still
That she heard a fly on the window-sill
Whisper and say to a lady-bird,--
'She's the stilliest child I ever heard!'
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01011111 1010100101 11111111 110101001 001011111 1110110101 100110101 10111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 305 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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