This is an analysis of Beautiful Rothesay by William Topaz McGonagall.

Beautiful Rothesay, your scenery is most grand,
You cannot be surpassed in fair Scotland.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ddcX ddbb eecc XXcX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1001001100011 1100010110 110110110011 101000111010011 10101001101101 10011111011 111011000111 110100100101001 1110111 010100101 11010101 00100100100 11110110011 101011111 101011101 111011100010101 010111100001 110111001 111011011 101010100111 010100101111 111011110 1011110110111 101001001000100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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