This is an analysis of Anglicised Utopia by William Schwenck Gilbert.
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXXbaacCDXBEEB ccbffbggXCDXBEEB eabggbaaXccDXBEEB
- Stanza lengths: 16,16,17,
- Metre: 010011010101010 110101110100010 01010101010 110011010101110 1010001000100010 101010100010 110111010101010 110001010101010 110111000101110 0101010101000010 0100010 10101000 110110010101 00101010 10100010 1110001001101 110111001101010 111001110111010 11010100010 1110111000101010 110001011100010 111000100010 010011011101010 01000101010100010 110101000111000 0101010101000010 0100010 10101000 110110010101 00101010 10100010 1110001001101 11011000111010010 110001110101010 111000100010 010101011101010 110101010101010 11010101010 1111110111010010 101101001101010 1111010111110 10 1101010001000010 0100010 10101000 110110010101 00101010 10100010 1110001001101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 49
