This is an analysis of The Ladies Of St. James’s by Henry Austin Dobson.
THE LADIES of St. James’s
Go swinging to the play;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXbc XdXdXcXc XeXeXXbf XfXfXfXf XgfgXfdf XdfdXcgc XhXhfaXa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0100110 110001 1101010 0011101 11001100 110101 1111010 010101 0100110 110111 111111 010101 11001100 110101 1101011 010101 0100110 111111 111010100 110001 11001100 010111 1101110 011110 0100110 1110001 1101110 110101 11001100 010111 0100010 010001 0100110 111101 0101110 110111 11001100 011101 1111011 010001 0100110 111111 1111110 111111 11001100 110111 0111011 011111 11001100 111111 0101110 111101 1111010 010110 11001100 010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
they
Anaphora
their, it, the, they
