This is an analysis of The Burning Of The Ship Kent by William Topaz McGonagall.
Good people of high and low degree,
I pray ye all to list to me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaXb cdee aabba ffaX eecX ffee bbgg hhdc ffii eeij jjkk aaii aXaa llgX ccXe XcXd Xemmaa
- Stanza lengths: 5,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Metre: 010011101 11110101 110101001001 010010001100001010 100101010001100 11001010100011 110101000100 0111001100 11010000110010 101101110101 11011001100101 100101110101010 0110010011100 1010011101 101001010101010 10100010111 1011101001 1101000111001010 10100111111 110100101 10010001010010111 1010100110110 100110010100111 1010110010110111 1110010010010001 0101011111 110100101101010100 10100110010001000 1010111111001001 1110000101001001 0110100101010011 10110111010011 101011001001 111011010101 0010010101100101 101100100101101 111000101101010 10111010110 1101011011000100 01110111111001 1110011011110 1010010011001 11011010010101 11000101010111 111011111001 101111110111 101111011101 111011010001 010100010010 101110110 110100111110101 011110100110010 110011111 1100010100101 1010101100101101 111010101001001 110001100011101 101011011111110100 101000100010111 10111101101 101011000100100 11111001010100 1010101101010 1101010110101 101001101101000110000 1110000100101 111010010100100100 111101011100101 111001011100101 1111101110001 100110101100101 111111011111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, in
Anaphora
and, but, then
