This is an analysis of Nelly Bly by Stephen Collins Foster.
Nelly Bly! Nelly Bly! bring de broom along,
We'll sweep de kitchen clean, my dear, and hab a little song.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbb CDCD XXcc eebbXccbb
- Stanza lengths: 6,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10110110101 11010111110101 1011101 110101 11110111 110101 11011010101 1111111010100 11011010101 1111111010100 10110110100 11000111110001 10110111111 11010101110101 10110111101 1110101011101 01111101111101 11011101011101 10110110101 1010110010111 101011101010111 11111010101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
de, nelly, she, nebber
Anaphora
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