This is an analysis of A Ballad Of The Town Water by Robert Fuller Murray.
It is the Police Commissioners,
All on a winter's day;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xbdb dXcX cbbb cece fXca faXX XXbb gXgghhX XXbbiiX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,7,7,
- Metre: 000010100 110101 11010110 110101 1100111001 1000111 11101010101 110101 1101110101 000101 11110100110 111111 111100110 1100111 111011101 011010 111100110 110001 1010110110 010101 111110101 110100 111100110 1100101 111100110 10100101 1100110101 110100 1111011010 1010111 111110110 101101 11000101 11010101 01110101 11011001 11010111 01101101 11101111 11010010 11010000 111111001 11010111 010100111 11110101 01010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
they, went, and, be
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
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