This is an analysis of The Blind Girl by William Topaz McGonagall.
Kind Christians, pray list to me,
And I'll relate a sad story,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbb aacc aaaa ccXX ddaX eeff cgeX ffXf hhii ccff eXdd gceeXaagc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1101101 11010110 01001011101001 110010001010 111110101101 1010010111 1010110111101 011110101 11010111111 11101111001 101010111 111000101100111 1111001101 100111010001 1110101101010 1011111001011100 1110011101010 100101111110 1110101001111 10100111101010 1101010100101 11101010100 111111101 10111011 111100101111101 11101101101 111011010101 110110011110 1001110111 010100101111 100110111011010 100101011101 11010110101 11011001110101 100101010101 11100111011 11101010101 11111111001 10101101001 1110101111111 0111010111001 10101010100 1010111111110 10111110010 11101101101011 11101110111 110101001 111100111 10101111001 11010100101001 10100110101 0101010111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, wren, she, you, her
Anaphora
nor, and, so
