This is an analysis of I Dream Of Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair by Stephen Collins Foster.
I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaXaA ccbbddee ffddaaaA
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 1101000111 1101010101 1101010111 10101011101 100011010111 100011110010 11101000111 101010101101 1111000101 10001010101 1101001111 101111001111 101011110101 10101111101 11111011111 101010101101 1111010111 1001110101 0111010111 10101111111 1010110110101 10101001011 11111000111 101010101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
her
Anaphora
many, sighing
