This is an analysis of A Hyde Park Larrikin by Henry Kendall.
You may have heard of Proclus, sir,
If you have been a reader;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbbXcdX efef ghgh ebeb ibib jXjX icic klkX jfjf amam dbdb Xbib mdmdXeXXnmnm iXiX ococ iliX dodo mmmm hhhh fbfb dpdp ohoh XXXf qfqf
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,12,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110101 0110010 11110100 1101010 1111011100 1111110 01000101 1111010 11011101 1101010 11110111 1111110 10110101 1101110 10010101 0101010 11110111 1111010 11110101 1101010 11000101 1111010 11011101 1101010 1101000001 110101000 01011111 1101010 11111101 1101110 01110101 1101010 01010101 0111011 01110001 1101010 01110101 11010110 11111101 1101010 01011100001 1111010 11011101 0011010 11010101 0101010 11111101 1101010 11110101 1101010 11100111 0111010 01110111 0101010 11110101 11001110 01010001 1101010 1101110100 1101010 1101000111 110000110 11111011 1101010 11011101 1101100 111101001 1101010 11010101 1101010 11011100 1100100 11010101 0101011 100010001 0101110 01010101 1111011 01111101 1110011 11111101 1111010 111101001 1101010 1101000111 0101010 01111101 0101010 01111111 0101010 01010101 0101010 11011101 1011110 11010111 0111010 01110101 0101010 111111001 0101010 11110101 1101100 1111110100 0101110 11110111 111100010 11010001 0011110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 24
- Lines: 108
Repeated words/phrases
you, he, his, and
Anaphora
what, the, a, and
