This is an analysis of The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore.
The Minstrel-Boy to the war is gone,
In the ranks of death you'll find him;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX aeaedXdX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 010100101 00101111 010111101 10111011 10010101001 10101011 11111111 11011110 010110101 11101110 01111101 11101010 111011101 11011100 110110111 1110101000
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
one
