This is an analysis of Thou Art the Queen of My Song by Stephen Collins Foster.
I long for thee; must I long and long in vain?
I sigh for thee; will thou come not back again?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbCdcEC ddccCdcECXaaccCdcEC
- Stanza lengths: 9,19,
- Metre: 11111111101 11110111101 111011 0101111 101011 01101101101 110110101 101100 1101011 01111010111 010111101001 111010 11110110 101011 01100111111 011110111 101100 1101011 110111101011 11011110111 110010 11001010 101011 111110101 10011101 101100 1101011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
long, i, of, days, my
Anaphora
i, the, come
Epiphora
us
