This is an analysis of The Kessack Ferry-Boat Fatality by William Topaz McGonagall.
'Twas on Friday the 2nd of March, in the year of 1894,
That the Storm Fiend did loudly laugh and roar…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme:
- Stanza lengths:
- Metre:
- Closest metre:
- Guessed form:
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
from, and, to, they, in
Anaphora
and, then, to
