This is an analysis of The Demon Drink by William Topaz McGonagall.
Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer;
Thou curse of society, and its greatest annoyer.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaa bbcc ddee XXff bbgg hXff ccXi aajj hhbb hhii iihh kkii ffaa iieX bbbbXaahh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1110111010 11001001010100 111100100111 11011101011101 11001000101 10010011101 11101010111001 110010100110111 110100101001101 011100010101 110110111100100 1100110100100100 10110111011 111011011000 11101110101 100100101101 1011111001 1010111011 01011111001 00110100111 10010010001011001 110011110 111001011011 110011111001 1101001011 11101000011101 1101101101111110 11010110100101 010100101010101 111101111 0111010101010 101011011001 011110101101 1000101101010111 101111111111101 001010011001 1011110100111 111110111111 1111111110011 1101110100101 011010110101110 1110001001001 101101001001 101011110001 011111110010 11011101101 1011111110100 11001011111001 101011001001 10101011000110 1111100011 0111110101 1110111111 11100110101001 01011011110010100 1111101011000 11010010010101 11110010011101 11001110110101 11101100100101 1110110111 1100100111 1110010111 101010011001011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
thou, his, man, he, and, would
Anaphora
and
