This is an analysis of The Darned Mounseer by William Schwenck Gilbert.
I shipped, d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop,
And, off Cape Finisteere,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXAXbcddXAX adeeXAXXcbbXAX fdggXAXecfXXAX
- Stanza lengths: 14,14,14,
- Metre: 1111001011 111100 010011 010101 11110110 11 1110110 11100010111001 11000101 010101 1110001 110000101 11 110000101 11101111111 1011111 1110011 1010101 11100110 11 1100110 10101110110001 001001101 110111 1110101 1110101 11 010001010 1110111110101 1110100001 110001 1111101 111000110 11 111000110 1110011111101 10101001 1111101 1010101 1110101101 11 1110101101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
he, we
Anaphora
a
