This is an analysis of The Sunderland Calamity by William Topaz McGonagall.
'Twas in the town of Sunderland, and in the year of 1883,
That about 200 children were launch'd into eternity…
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- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 66
Repeated words/phrases
in, and, as, to, he, their
Anaphora
while, and, to, the
