This is an analysis of The Bore by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
Ah, prithee friend, if thou has ought
Of love and kind regard for me…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcB dXXb dbaX ebXb fbfb gbgX hXeb XXhb XbcB
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110111 01110111 11110101 11001101 11110011 1110100 11111101 01110111 11010111 11110111 11010101 0101010 10010101 01011101 01010111 11011001 10010101 11111111 10011001 11110101 11111101 11110110 11110101 1101010 1111111 1111110 11111100 10010001 100101010 0101011 11010111 11100111 1110111 11011111 11110101 11001101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
nor, of, and
Anaphora
nor, he, and