This is an analysis of A Descriptive Poem On The Silvery Tay by William Topaz McGonagall.
Beautiful silvery Tay,
With your landscapes, so lovely and gay,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AaabbbXXXaaaaaaccaaddaaAaacaa
- Stanza lengths: 29,
- Metre: 1001001 011111011 0111011001101 110100011110011 1011101001 1010101101 1011101000101001 1010011 001001 11011 1100111111 001001 001001 1001001001 11000010101101 11100000100001 10110111011111 110111 1010111 101010101 00010111 1110011 0101001001001 1001001 1010111 111011101 110001010101 1110101011111101101 0101001000101001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
beautiful, and
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
tay
