This is an analysis of Yule Fever (With Apologies To The King's Minstrel) by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

I must go down to the shops again, to the crowded shops go I
And all I have is a long list of the gifts that I must buy,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb Xcdd ccdX ccee ffcc bbbX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1111001010010111 111100110011111 101100111011010 1111101111101110 1111001011010100 00111011111001 111100111100010 10111110100010 111100101111111 111111111101 111111111111010 1110111101010 111110010100110101 101110111011101 1111001110101010 10110011101110 1111001011110101 00100110010011 111100110101010 11101101111111010 1111001011111111 001110111110101 1111001110101010 1011101110110100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

i, and, call, for

Anaphora

and