"Ring around the rosy A pocketful of posies "Ashes, Ashes" We all fall down." today is a children song. That all the kids today sing and love. But it has a connection with the Bubonic Plague. The plague's symptoms gave a person a rosy red rash in the shape of a ring hints "Ring around the rosy" and they thought that carrying flowers and nice smelling herbs known as posies in pockets hint "A pocketful of posies" But the ashes ashes part was originally "A-tishoo, A-tishoo" due to the deadly sneezing. The English version "Ashes, Ashes" refers to the burning of infected, dead bodies.
The first two verses of the song are iambic trimeter "Ring around the rosy A pocketful of posies" and the verse "Ashes, Ashes" is a iambic dimeter and the last verse "We all fall down" is a trochee dimeter. In the song there are some consonance like Ring aRound the Rosy and A Pocketful of Posies and "We ALL fALL down"
This is a good analysis Landon! Make sure you write in complete sentences and use correct punctuation. Look over these things before you publish your post.
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