This is an analysis of Loch Katrine by William Topaz McGonagall.
Beautiful Loch Katrine in all thy majesty so grand,
Oh! how charming and fascinating is thy silver strand!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb CCAAdddX CCAAbcee CCAAXXff CCAAggff CCAAaaffXCCAA
- Stanza lengths: 4,8,8,8,8,13,
- Metre: 10011001110011 11101101001101 11001110110001 01001100111001 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111 111101011111 1101001100101 101000100101 111010101101 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111 0101101001100001 11010101001101 111110101011101 001010101001 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111 110001010101 101010010001001 100110001101 10100100010111 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111 1001101010101 1010101001001 11101011001001 001011101 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111 010111110110101 1101011101 101111100101 001011101001 101011000101 1110100110101 111011010110 00101101111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, thy, to, its, on
Epiphora
grand
