This is an analysis of The Royal Review by William Topaz McGonagall.
All hail to the Empress of India, Great Britain's Queen--
Long may she live in health, happy and serene--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaa bbccddcc aaee Xabbaa ffcc ggbbaX cchhaacc
- Stanza lengths: 7,8,4,6,4,6,8,
- Metre: 11001001001101 11110110101 11010101 0110101010101 10100001 11100110101 101001011101 110101110101 01011001 1001110111 1011010101011 1001010111 0110101010011 11001101011 001110101011 101011001 010100010010101 0100011010110 0100111001001 10101101011100 11110001 01010101 10110110101 1011011101 1110010101111 01011010101 11100111010 1001001111011 111110101101011 0100100101101 0110111011 1110100010101 100010110011 100100111 11011011 11110001101 01111001011 10101001011 1001110111 010110011011 11010010101 0111101011 1010110101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
by, and, they, to
Anaphora
and
