This is an analysis of The Ballad Of Bill's Breeches by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
Once on a time, a party by the name of Mr. BULL
Discovered that with many schemes his hands were pretty full.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXXddX eebbffgffg hhiicXbXXhhX bbjjccXXai iiccddiXaX ffjXddXjXX XcXXafkkX bbbXkXXaai
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,12,10,10,10,9,10,
- Metre: 11010101010101 01010101010101 01010001111111 10010101011101 11010101110001 01001001111100 010101011101010 1111 1101 1101010 11010111010101 11010101110001 11001101010111 01001000010111 11110101110111 11010100010101 110111111101010 1100 1111 1111110 11001101010101 01001101011101 11000101010011 11010101110101 11011101110001 01011101110011 10010111110001 01010111111111 110101010100110 0101 1101 1111110 10010111010001 100100001111101 11111101110101 11010101110100 11011111110101 100101001011001 111101111111010 1101 1111 1111010 11010101110001 11111101011101 11011101110111 11110101110101 11011100110111 01010001010101 111111010101110 1101 1111 1011110 01110100110101 01101101110101 11111111111101 01110111110110 11010111110111 01010100111001 1101111010101010 1111 1111 1111111 0101010011010 01000101111101 11010101110101 11010100110111 11110101111101 11011111110111101111 1101 1111 1101010 11110111010101 11010101010111 11010111110001 01111101011000 11110111111101 110111111111010 101101011100110 1101 0101 1111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 88
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, his, never, her, to, '
Epiphora
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