Analysis of In Fervent Praise Of Picnics
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Picnics is fun 'at's purty hard to beat.
I purt'-nigh ruther go to them than _eat_.
I purt'-nigh ruther go to them than go
With our Char_lot_ty to the Trick-Dog Show.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111111 1111011111 1111011111 110110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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