This is an analysis of To The Terrestrial Globe by William Schwenck Gilbert.
Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
Through pathless realms of Space…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbAbcccDA AeAefffDAXa
- Stanza lengths: 9,11,
- Metre: 111111 110101 11 11000101 11110111 111101001 11110101 1011 11 111111 110101 11 01111101 01110101 01110111 11110101 1011 11 011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
roll, on, what, though, i, it's, true
Anaphora
what, roll, it's
Epiphora
on
