This is an analysis of The Irish Convict's Return by William Topaz McGonagall.
Ye mountains and glens of Old Ireland,
I've returned home to ye again;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe Xbfb fghg acac Xiai bbhb gjkj daaa alkl
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1101101100 10110101 1011001 1111111 1111011110 101111 1010011100 11101001 110010100 11100101 101011100 101110001 11111011110 11101011 11100110 1101111 1111101100 111011101 10101111 1110001 101101011 111101 11110110 10110101 111110010 110101101 11110110110 110111 1111101010 111010 11001010 10101100 11110101010 1010011101 11111001 11111101 11110010 100100001 10101110 1111100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
ye, my, and, i
Anaphora
and, ye
