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Hoosier dialect—the midland dialect of American English
- The poem, like several of Riley’s others, is written in Hoosier dialect—the midland dialect of American English, or more specifically that from Indiana.
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"Little Orphant Annie" is an 1885 poem written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. First titled "The Elf Child", the name was changed by Riley to "Little Orphant Allie" at its third printing; however, a typesetting error during printing renamed the poem to its current form.
Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and it made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York Daily News.
“Little Orphant Annie” was written in the Hoosier dialect of Riley’s native Indiana. Sentimental and cheerfully philosophical, the poem concerns an orphaned girl who tells the children in whose house she lives scary stories about “the Gobble-un.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- IT WAS ORIGINALLY LITTLE ORPHAN OTTO. Harold Gray was originally a hired pencil, owning and operating an art studio in Chicago following his service in World War I. After Gray began assisting cartoonist Sidney Smith on a strip titled The Grumps, Gray decided he might like to try his hand creating his own.
- ANNIE WAS A FIGURE OF FEMALE EMPOWERMENT. In stark contrast to the portrayal of women in popular culture of the time, Annie was no damsel in distress.
- SHE PIONEERED MARKETING TO KIDS. Tie-in merchandising and marketing to children is commonplace today, but the template for it may have been laid down by Annie’s first foray into multimedia.
- HAROLD GRAY USED THE COMIC STRIP TO DELIVER POLITICAL PROPAGANDA. A staunch conservative, Gray often used the powerful platform he had as a widely distributed cartoonist to comment on the politics of the day.
It is written in what is known as the Hoosier dialect of Indiana, sometimes making some of the words difficult to understand or uncommon in plain, modern English. It follows an AABBCCDD rhyme scheme (changes every stanza), with the DD being rhymed between the 7th and 12th lines– the final five lines of each stanza are like one line broken up ...
Analysis (ai): This 19th-century poem by James Whitcomb Riley is a cautionary tale for children, warning them of the consequences of misbehaving. Annie, an orphan, lives with a family and completes household chores in exchange for room and board.
“Little Orphant Annie” was written in the Hoosier dialect of Riley’s native Indiana. Sentimental and cheerfully philosophical, the poem concerns an orphaned girl who tells the children in whose house she lives scary stories about “the Gobble-un.” The cartoonist Harold Gray named his comic strip about a similarly plucky girl Little Orphan Annie.
