Analysis of Our Own
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
They walk here with us, hand-in-hand;
We gossip, knee-by-knee;
They tell us all that they have planned--
Of all their joys to be,--
And, laughing, leave us: And, to-day,
All desolate we cry
Across wide waves of voiceless graves--
Good-by! Good-by! Good-by!
| Scheme | ABABCDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 110111 11111111 111111 01011011 110011 01111101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 257 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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