Analysis of From The Headboard Of A Grave In Paraguay
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
A troth, and a grief, and a blessing,
Disguised them and came this way--,
And one was a promise, and one was a doubt,
And one was a rainy day.
And they met betimes with this maiden,
And the promise it spake and lied,
And the doubt it gibbered and hugged itself,
And the rainy day-- she died.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010010010 0110111 01101001101 0110101 01111110 00101101 001110101 0010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 292 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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