Analysis of The Best Times
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
When Old Folks they wuz young like us
An' little as you an' me
Them wuz the best times ever wuz
Er ever goin' to be!
| Scheme | AB AB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 1101111 11011101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 121 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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