Riley Child-Rhymes
Riley's poems for children in Hoosier dialect: "Little Orphant Annie", "The Raggedy Man".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,579 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.21 times what shuffling the words would give (0.31 observed against 0.25 expected). 20% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
With Hale Affection and Abiding Faith, These Rhymes and Pictures, Are Inscribed, to the Children Everywhereiambic tetrameter · AABB · 10 linesLittle Orphant Annie48 linesThe Raggedy ManAABBCCDDDD · 40 linesCurly Locksanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 24 linesThe Funny Little Fellowiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 56 linesThe Happy Little Crippleiambic heptameter · AABBCCDD · 40 linesThe Rider of the Kneetrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 16 linesDown Around the Rivertrochaic heptameter · AABB · 32 linesAt Aunty's Houseiambic tetrameter · 30 linesThe Days Gone byiambic heptameter · AABBAA · 18 linesThe Bumblebeetrochaic pentameter · AABB · 18 linesThe Boy Lives on Our Farmiambic tetrameter · 24 linesThe Squirtgun Uncle Maked MeABAAB · 30 linesThe Old Trampiambic tetrameter · 8 linesOld Aunt Mary'siambic pentameter · AABB · 36 linesWinter Fanciesiambic dimeter · 37 linesThe Runaway Boytrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 40 linesThe Little Coattrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 48 linesAn Impetuous Resolveiambic tetrameter · 16 linesWho Santy-Claus Wuztrochaic heptameter · AABB · 40 linesThe Nine Little Goblinsiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 48 linesTime of Clearer Twitteringstrochaic tetrameter · AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH · 64 linesThe Circus-Day Paradeiambic heptameter · AABB · 28 linesThe Lugubrious Whing-Whangiambic pentameter · ABAAAB · 33 linesWaitin' Fer the Cat to Dietrochaic tetrameter · ABABCCDDEEFF · 48 linesNaughty Claudeiambic tetrameter · 8 linesThe South Wind and the Suniambic tetrameter · 160 linesThe Jolly Miller42 linesOur Hired Girliambic tetrameter · ABABCCDCDDEEEFF · 45 linesThe Boys' Candidateiambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 6 linesThe Pet Cooniambic heptameter · ABABCDCD · 24 linesThe Old Hay-Mowiambic tetrameter · AABB · 24 linesOn the Sunny Sidetrochaic trimeter · ABABCDCD · 40 linesA Sudden Showeriambic tetrameter · ABAB · 28 linesGrandfather Squeersanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 72 linesThe Pixy Peopletrochaic trimeter · ABABCDCD · 64 linesA Life-Lessoniambic trimeter · ABCCBAA · 21 linesA Home-Made Fairy-TaleAABB · 32 linesThat Alex "Ist Maked Up His-Own-Se'F"iambic pentameter · 141 linesEnvoyanapaestic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 40 lines
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Public domain. Text from Riley Child-Rhymes, Project Gutenberg ebook #9777. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.