This is an analysis of The Pennsylvania Disaster by William Topaz McGonagall.
'Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of June,
Ten thousand people met with a fearful doom,…
Structure
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- Stanza lengths:
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- Closest metre:
- Guessed form:
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
in, of, and, her
Anaphora
and, to
