This is an analysis of Massa's in de Cold Ground by Stephen Collins Foster.
ROUND de meadows am a-ringing
De darkeys' mournful song,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabab c bbab ababaXac dbdbeXec
- Stanza lengths: 8,1,4,8,8,
- Metre: 10111010 010101 10101110 1010111 10101010 100101 11101010 1000111 10 10011 11101 10101010 1000111 10101010 10101 1110111010 1111111 10101110 10101 10101110 101011110 10101011 11111 11101011 10111101 110101010 10111 110101110 101011110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
de
Anaphora
when, massa
Anadiplosis
sleeping
