Analysis of A Full Harvest

James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)



Seems like a feller'd ort 'o jes' to-day
Git down and roll and waller, don't you know,
In that-air stubble, and flop up and crow,
Seein' sich craps! I'll undertake to say
There're no wheat's ever turned out thataway
Afore this season!--Folks is keerless tho',
And too fergitful--'caze we'd ort 'o show
More thankfulness!--Jes' looky hyonder, hey?--
And watch that little reaper wadin' thue
That last old yaller hunk o' harvest-ground--
Jes' natchur'ly a-slicin' it in-two
Like honey-comb, and gaumin' it around
The field--like it had nothin' else to do
On'y jes' waste it all on me and you!


Scheme ABBACBBADECEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 110111111 1101010111 0111001101 11111011 101110111 11101111 01111111 111111 011101011 111111101 1101101 110101101 0111110111 1111111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 585
Words 104
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 440
Words per stanza (avg) 99
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 08, 2023

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James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. more…

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