This is an analysis of Beautiful Balmerino by William Topaz McGonagall.
Beautiful Balmermo on the bonnie banks of Tay,
It's a very bonnie spot in the months of June or May;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbcX ddaa ddbb XcaX eeaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1001001010101 00101010010111 010010101101001 0100001000110 1010100010110101 11001111110 101110011001 01000111100101 11100100101 100101010001 11010110001 1001010001001111 110010100101 1001010111 1011010010101 101010101010001 110101001000 101000101001001 1100101101001 110011010101 111010110001 00101110101 101101101 1110101101001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
of, trees, and, they
Anaphora
which, and
