This is an analysis of Bonnie Callander by William Topaz McGonagall.
Chorus --
Bonnie Helen, will you go to Callander with me…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcbXbccc a ddee a eeff a ggff a ddbb a bcee a bbXX
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Metre: 10 1010011010001 11010101010100 1100010111001 1111101110101 100001010111001 1010001010100100 11100010101100100 101110010100 10 1111011101001 010001100100101 001011001001 1001101010001 10 0111010100110 010010011101010 11010010011101 01001100001010101 10 1011101000100101 101101011010011 1101100111 1011010100101 10 111101100101 011111110101 01001011101011 110100101110101 10 01010011101001 001011100101010100 1010100010101 001010010110110111 10 11000100111101 0010101001000101 1101100101 110010101000010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
and, it
Anaphora
and
