Riley Farm-Rhymes
James Whitcomb Riley's Hoosier dialect verse: "When the Frost Is on the Punkin".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,385 lines, 98% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 97% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 1.09 times what shuffling the words would give (0.21 observed against 0.20 expected). 23% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
To the Good Old-Fashioned Peopletrochaic heptameter · 19 linesThe Orchard Lands of Long Agoiambic tetrameter · AABB · 30 linesWhen the Frost Is on the Punkiniambic heptameter · 50 linesWhen the Green Gits Back in the TreesABABCACAAA · 30 linesWet-Weather Talkiambic tetrameter · 48 linesThe Brook-Song38 linesThoughts Fer the Discuraged Farmeriambic heptameter · 54 lines"Mylo Jones's Wife"trochaic tetrameter · AABBCCDDEE · 60 linesHow John Quit the Farm175 linesA Canary at the Farmtrochaic tetrameter · 24 linesWhere the Children Used to PlayAABCCB · 32 linesGriggsby's Station53 linesKnee-Deep in Junetrochaic tetrameter · 99 linesSeptember Darkiambic dimeter · AAABBB · 18 linesThe Cloveranapaestic tetrameter · 25 linesOld Octobertrochaic tetrameter · AABBCCDDEEAA · 36 linesOld-Fashioned Rosestrochaic tetrameter · 32 linesA Country Pathwayiambic pentameter · ABAB · 104 linesWortermelon Time73 linesUp and Down Old Brandywinetrochaic tetrameter · 103 linesWhen Early March Seems Middle Mayiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 36 linesA Tale of the Airly Daysiambic tetrameter · 40 linesOld Man's Nursery Rhymetrochaic trimeter · 40 linesJuneiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDCDCD · 14 linesThe Tree-Toadiambic tetrameter · 28 linesA Song of Long AgoAABB · 35 linesOld Winters on the Farmtrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 12 linesRomancin'trochaic heptameter · 77 lines
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