This is an analysis of The Courtship Of The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo by Edward Lear.
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On the Coast of Coromandel…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a XBCaddcCcAA X eBcaeXcccAA X XbXAfXggXAA X XbXAddhhXAA a fbiAXfiiiAX a dbjAddjjjAX X fbaAXfaaaAX X dBaaXdaaXAA X kbDakXdDXAA X XbcAXdcccAA
- Stanza lengths: 1,11,1,11,1,11,1,11,1,11,1,11,1,11,1,11,1,11,1,11,
- Metre: 1 10101000 1010101 0010001 1010101 11111010 11101010 1010101 0010001 1010101 0010101 0010101 1 10101110 1010101 0010101 1010101 11101010 01111010 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1 10101010 1010101 11110110 1010101 111001010 10111110 1010011 1111011 10110110 1010101 1010101 1 10101000 1110001 1110011 1010101 11111110 11101010 1010101 1010011 1011101 1010101 1010101 1 10101010 1010101 1010111 110101 11011110 11101010 1010101 1111111 1010101 110101 110101 1 1101010 101111 1010101 110101 11111110 11101010 1110011 11111101 1011111 110101 110101 1 11101010 1111111 1111101 110101 11101010 10111110 1011111 1110101 1011101 110101 110101 1 101001010 1010101 0011101 1010101 1010101 10111010 10101111 1110101 111101 1010101 1010101 1 10101010 0010101 1010101 1010101 0011010 010111010 1010111 1010101 10101100 1010101 1010101 1 00101000 0110101 1110111 1010101 11101000 00101010 1111101 1110101 0010111 1010101 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 20
- Lines: 120
Repeated words/phrases
of, your
Anaphora
of, said, 'mr, sang, for
Epiphora
b
