Analysis of The Town Karnteel

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



The Town Karnteel--! It's who'll reveal
Its praises jushtifiable?
For who can sing av anything
So lovely and reliable?
Whin Summer, Spring, or Winter lies
From Malin's Head to Tipperary,
There's no such town for interprise
Bechuxt Youghal and Londonderry!

There's not its likes in Ireland--
For twic't the week, be gorries!
They're playing jigs upon the band,
And joomping there in sacks-- and-- and--
And racing, wid wheelborries!

Kanteel-- it's there, like any fair,
The purty gurrls is plinty, sure--!
And man-alive! At forty-five
The leg's av me air twinty, sure!
I lave me cares, and hoein' too,
Behint me, as is sinsible,
And it's Karnteel I'm goin' to,
To cilebrate in principle!

For there's the town av all the land!
And twic't the week, be-gorries!
They're playing jigs upon the band,
And joomping there in sacks-- and-- and--
And racing, wid wheelborries!

And whilst I feel for owld Karnteel
That I've no phrases glorious,
It stands above the need av love
That boasts in voice uproarious--!
Lave that for Cork, and Dublin too,
And Armagh and Killarney thin--,
And Karnteel won't be troublin' you
Wid any jilous blarney, thin!

For there's the town av all the land
Where twic't the week, be-gorries!
They're playing jigs upon the band,
And joomping there in sacks-- and-- and--
And racing, wid wheelborries!


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Poetic Form
Metre 0111101 1101 1111110 11000100 11011101 1111100 111111 1100100 11110100 110111 11010101 0110100 01011 1111101 011111 01011101 0111111 1111011 11111 011111 110100 11011101 010111 11010101 0110100 01011 0111111 11110100 11010111 11011 11110101 01011 011111 110111 11011101 110111 11010101 0110100 01011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,285
Words 223
Sentences 18
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 8, 5, 8, 5, 8, 5
Lines Amount 39
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 166
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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