This is an analysis of The Runcorn Ferry by Marriott Edgar.
On the banks of the Mersey, o'er on Cheshire side,
Lies Runcorn that's best known to fame…
Browse poems by Marriott Edgar
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb ccdc bada efgf hciX XaAX XXAX gXha hiei dhaX XahX XcaX hjkX XXbe Xihi ccXc kcaXXhjjj
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1010010101101 11011101 10101111101 11101011 01100101011 01011001 11101011101 111011011 11011011101 11011011 111111001101 101101010 11001010001 11001001 01011010000 11011011 1011010101001 101001001 111011101011 110110110 1011010111010 11001101 1010110110101 1010111110 1000111011110 1101011010 1010110110101 1001111010 1111101101010 011110110 10001001001 01001001 01011001001 111010110 001011101110 101001011 101011001011 101011101 11010010011001 10110011110 111110111010 1100101111 1011111101 1111010010 11101011011 11011001 1010110110101 1011110110 10110110101101 111101011 11001111011 110010110 1101101101010 11011001 001101011001 101001001 11101001001 001011101 11001101001 101001101 11101011001 01001011 101001101011 01011101 11001111011 111011101 101101110011 101110110110 111101101101 11101011 11011111011 1111010011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 18
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
per, for, trip, i'll, and, of, his, he'd, got
Anaphora
and, per, the, he, he'd
