This is an analysis of In Honour Of The City Of London by William Dunbar.
LONDON, thou art of townes A per se.
Soveraign of cities, seemliest in sight,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXaXXB XcaccXXB XXXXXXXB XXXddbdB aeXeeXeB XXXfXbfB XgXcXXgB
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1011010111 1000101001 011010110 110101100101 11010010101 0101000100100 11001010101 10110100101 1010110100 111110111 0101100111 1001010101 11010101101 11010010100 1011010101 10110100101 1011100100 1101001110 110101010 1101011100 100101010 011001100 1101100010 10110100101 01110110110 1101010110 1011010101 11001110101 11001111101 11001110110 11010101101 10110100101 0111010101 1100110001 0111011001001 11010101001 11010111001 100101100 11000011101 10110100101 10110101110 10010101110 10110001010 101101100110 1011000101100 10111100111 10110101010 10110100101 11011100100 11010110100 1101010110 1101101011 101001111 100010111000 10110110110 10110100101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, in, be, thy
Anaphora
of, where
