This is an analysis of Crying, My Little One, Footsore And Weary? by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
Crying, my little one, footsore and weary?
Fall asleep, pretty one, warm on my shoulder:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 10110110110 10110111110 11111010110 10111110110 11111111010 11110110110 11110010110 10010110010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
on, my, and, of
Anaphora
sleep
