This rag struts happily from start to finish. Sentimental chromaticism shows up at several junctures, and a cheeky triplet grace-note figure impishly closes some of the sections. Some of the rhythms in the introduction and the first strain blur the meter, and the remainder of the first strain struts straightforwardly with the pulsing and syncopation characteristic of ragtime. The second section has more of a gliding feel, and the syncopated pulse that emerged in the first part alternates with syncopations at a more sustained level. Unusually for Joplin, the first strain does not return between the second and third. A striking modulation from C to A-flat carries the work's contented feeling to a new level of security at the beginning of part three, and the fourth section glides easily and straightforwardly with no syncopation at all. The rag ends by recapitulating the second strain as the fifth.

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