This is an analysis of My Castle In Spain by John Hay.
There was never a castle seen
So fair as mine in Spain:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabcXabaa ddedfeffe ececacaXeee gegddgegaggaa ceechefeifheie fccfjeggejfhhf
- Stanza lengths: 10,9,11,13,14,14,
- Metre: 11100101 111101 01100001 100101 00110101 11101110 010101 10101100101 1111001 0100101 010111 010111 01010101 110101 1101100101 0100101 1010110101 110110101 1011101 1100101 110111 010101 11100111 10011111 00101001 110101 100101 101001010 101010010 11001001 1100111 11011011 101001011 0010111 0110101 1001001 111111 100111001 0111101 1111101 1111111 011101 1111001 011111 11001010 101001010 110101 010100 0100101 111100 00100101 0101110 1011101 011100 01001010 10111110 0100010 1111111 1111101 10111101 10000111 10010110 01011011 1111010 1111101 1100101 101011010 1101111 101001110 111010110 1101111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 71
Repeated words/phrases
and, nor, her
Anaphora
and, sometimes, nor
