Analysis of His Mother's Way
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Tomps 'ud allus haf to say
Somepin' 'bout 'his mother's way.'--
_He_ lived hard-like--never jined
Any church of any kind.--
'It was Mother's way,' says he,
'To be good enough fer _me_
And her too,--and certinly
Lord has heerd _her_ pray!'
Propped up on his dyin' bed,--
'Shore as Heaven's overhead,
I'm a-goin' there,' he said---
'It was Mother's way.'
| Scheme | AABBCDEABBBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 111101 1111101 1011101 1110111 1110111 00101 11111 111111 1110101 101111 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 349 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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