This is an analysis of The Ballad Of The 'Britain's Pride' by William Watson.
It was a skipper of Lowestoft
That trawled the northern sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabcDadaeX dXbfeeXe gdgddcD Xd Xbgbbhfh edadXdXcDX
- Stanza lengths: 10,8,7,2,8,10,
- Metre: 010100100 1100101 0010111110 10 101 11 10101010 1010101 111111011 100001 0111110 11100101 0011100101 1101101 11001011 011101 1111100101 1011101 101110010 1101011 1010100111 0010101 101011111 1100 101 11011110 010111 1010010 10101 110010010 1110101 01010010 010101 100101101 110101 1001010 010111 1011110101 1010101 110110110 1101001 0010010100 10100 101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
he, and, his
Anaphora
and, slowly
