This is an analysis of Only A Dancing Girl by William Schwenck Gilbert.
Only a dancing girl,
With an unromantic style,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabb cdcddee dfdffgg edXddXh hdhddiiXfffffff
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,15,
- Metre: 100101 0110001 0111011 0101001 0100101 0100001 111101 10010001 1101001 11100101 110001 111101 100111 0101001 110101 11101001 001001001 001001001 011101 1111001 010111 110111 110101 01010010 1101110 00110101 1010101 1101010 1010101 111101 11011010 101111 1110111 1111101 0011101 110111 1010101 1100101 0011101 010101 0010101 1010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
with, her, and
Anaphora
with, and
Anadiplosis
i, why
