This is an analysis of Some Folks by Stephen Collins Foster.
Some folks like to sigh,
— Some folks do, some folks do;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBaBCADAXeBeBCADAXfBfBAXgBgBAXhBhBA
- Stanza lengths: 35,
- Metre: 11101 111111 11101 111111 11010101 111111 10101 1101111 1 11101 111111 10111 111111 11010101 111111 10101 1101111 1 11111 111111 110111 111111 111 1 11111 111111 101011 111111 111 1 11111 111111 010101 111111 111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
some, folks
Anaphora
some