This is an analysis of The Clepington Catastrophe by William Topaz McGonagall.
'Twas on a Monday morning, and in the year of 1884,
That a fire broke out in Bailie Bradford's store,…
Structure
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- Stanzas: 18
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
in, of, for, and, his, it, to, by, i
Anaphora
which, but, for
