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.…
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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