This is an analysis of The Shipman's Tale by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Listen my masters! I speak naught but truth.
From dawn to dawn they drifted on and on,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabcXcbXaddccXXbXcaXaXbd be ebcXb
- Stanza lengths: 24,2,5,
- Metre: 1011011111 0101110111 1101010111 1011010111 1101111101 1101101011 1101010111 1111011101 1101010101 1101011001 1100110101 1011010101 1101000101 0101010101 1111110001 0101110101 0111010110 11001111111 0101110111 1100110111 1101001111 11110101011 1111000101 1111110011 1111 110101 1101010011 1111011111 1100110111 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
some, and
Anaphora
some, what
