This is an analysis of The Song of All Songs by Stephen Collins Foster.
As you've walked through the town on a fine summer's day,
The subject I've got, you have seen, I dare say;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccDddDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 46,
- Metre: 111101101101 00111111111 011011011011 1101010101001 01001111101 11111101101 11001111001 111001001111 111110101 11001111001 1 111100101110101011 0111011100101011 10110101011110011 1110111111010101 111101010101011101 111110111101110101 111101111110111011 1111000101010101011 1 110101010111101011 111001010101111 10110110111110111 1110010111111011 1111110101110111001 101001111101110101011 1101010101110101011 11110101011101011 1 10011111110111011 111010110111101011 10100010111100011 01011110110101011 111011011101011 10111111100100011 110001010111101011 111110101111101111 1 11111110101011001 110101111101110001111 1111010101010111111 11110011010111011 110101010111111111 11010100110111111 11101010110101001 1101001001010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
to, them, ', of
Anaphora
'
Epiphora
song, '
Anadiplosis
'
