Analysis of A Wrangdillion
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Dexery-tethery! down in the dike,
Under the ooze and the slime,
Nestles the wraith of a reticent Gryke,
Blubbering bubbles of rhyme:
Though the reeds touch him and tickle his teeth--
Though the Graigroll and the Cheest
Pluck at the leaves of his laureate-wreath,
Nothing affects him the least.
He sinks to the dregs in the dead o' the night,
And he shuffles the shadows about
As he gathers the stars in a nest of delight
And sets there and hatches them out:
The Zhederrill peers from his watery mine
In scorn with the Will-o'-the-wisp,
As he twinkles his eyes in a whisper of shine
That ends in a luminous lisp.
The Morning is born like a baby of gold,
And it lies in a spasm of pink,
And rallies the Cheest for the horrible cold
He has dragged to the willowy brink,
The Gryke blots his tears with a scrap of his grief,
And growls at the wary Graigroll
As he twunkers a tune on a Tiljicum leaf
And hums like a telegraph pole.
Scheme | ABABCDCD DDDDEFEF DGDGHIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001 1001001 1001101001 11011 1011101011 101001 1101111001 1001101 11101001101 01100101 111001001101 01101011 011111001 01101101 111011001011 11001001 01011101011 011001011 01001101001 111101001 01111101111 0110101 111011011 0110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 910 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 242 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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