This is an analysis of A Requisition To The Queen by William Topaz McGonagall.

Smiths Buildings No. 19
Patons Lane,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabX aabb accdX abbb aaeeedccbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,4,11,
  • Metre: 11011 101 01 1011 1101001001011001 1110111010101101 1011011001 10110001101 1101001001101001 11111111101101 101100101100101 110001101111010 10111100 100100100110101 11101000111011 111011001011100 1110010100010111 1101001001100101 110001 11110001 1110111 1110001111001 11010011110 10101110001 11010101101010111 11110100101001 101000110 11001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

and, it, you, your

Anaphora

and, most, i