This is an analysis of Glasgow by William Topaz McGonagall.
Beautiful city of Glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean,
Your stateley mansions, and beautiful Green!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb c ddee ffgg c bbXd c hhfX c hhaa c hhaa c aaee c iiee
- Stanza lengths: 4,1,4,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Metre: 100100110111111 11001011001 11110010010101 111101111001 10 101001001001 0011001111101 1010111001 10110101001 1100010110011 1001101101 1101001001110 11001001111110010 10 0110010100101 10100010010001 111010101110010 11010100010111 10 1101010011010011 00010011101101 01010011010001 011101110100101 10 1110110110111011 0001011100101 11100001 1101010110010001 10 1110110101011 101010111011001 11111011111 101100111001 10 11110100110001 00100101111 1001001010101101 101011111111 10 10010011110111 1010101111101 101101010101001 11010101001010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
your, beautiful, and, to, statue, it
Anaphora
and
