Analysis of The Old Tramp
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
A Old Tramp slep' in our stable wunst,
An' The Raggedy Man he caught
An' roust him up, an' chased him off
Clean out through our back lot!
An' th' Old Tramp hollered back an' said,--
'You're a _purty_ man!--_You_ air!--
With a pair o' eyes like two fried eggs,
An' a nose like a Bartlutt pear!'
| Scheme | AAXA ABXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 0111010101 10100111 11111111 1111011 1111110111 101111 101111111 1011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 294 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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