Analysis of Gratefully And Affectionately Inscribed To Joel Chandler Harris
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
_You who to the rounded prime_
_Of a life of toil and stress_,
_Still have kept the morning-time_
_Of glad youth in heart and spirit_,
_So your laugh, as children hear it_,
_Seems their own, no less_,--
_Take this book of childish rhyme_--
_The Book of Joyous Children_.
_Their first happiness on earth_
_Here is echoed--their first glee_:
_Rich, in sooth, the volume's worth_--
_Not in classic lore, but rich in_
_The child-sagas of the kitchen_;--
_Therefore, take from me_
_To your heart of childish mirth_
_The Book of Joyous Children_.
| Scheme | abaccbaD exeddaeD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 1011101 1110101 1110101 11111011 11111 1111101 111101 1110011 1110111 1010101 10101111 1110101 1111 1111101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 533 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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