This is an analysis of Burns by Charles Harpur.
MY OWN WILD BURNS! these rude-wrought rhymes of thine
In golden worth are like the unshapely coin…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaXb ccddcceXee fgccffhhdd iiccbbffccccjj kkbblbbii ffbbcmmffffbbnnffaa iiddeeeeaa Xcccccc jjffeeccooccaXnnfgXd ccaaiX mmiippccXc ddcceeddXaeeXeecccbliicccc
- Stanza lengths: 5,10,10,14,9,19,10,7,20,6,10,26,
- Metre: 1111111101 010111010001 0111111001 1111010111 1101000101 1101011101 0101010111 01010010011 01110101001 11001110101 1111011101 1101010101 01110011001 10101010101 1101010011100 11001010001 11010101010 0011110011 10111100011 11010100101 01010111001 1011110001 0111010101 11010011010 01010101010 1111011111 1101010010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 00110100101 11010111001 1111001011 1101010101 1111000101 01011110101 100101001 11010100001 1101010101 1111010101 1101000111 1100010101 10010111000 1111111100 1111010101 10010011001 0001011111 10010000111 1101110101 0101000101 0100010101 01010010111 11010010111 01111011011 1101111101 1101011111 0101010101 1111010101 010010111101 1101100111 11010010001 0111000101 0111010001 11111100101 0011001101 1011010001 0011101111 1101010101 1101000101 1001010111 00010011001 1101010101 01010101001 1011010011 01101010101 0101111101 0111010101 1101110100 1101011001 101101110100 1111001111 0101010001 01000110011 00110100001 1100110101 0101110001 0101000111 1001100101 0101110001 01010100100 0101010001 1101010101 1111010001 1000101010101 1100011111 1100010101 1001110101 0101010101 1101010111 0101010101 0101010101 0101011001010 1101100110 1101000100 11001001101 0101101101 1111111101 1101010111 0101010101 0111000101 1101111001 0101000101 1101110101 11010111101 0101010111 1111011111 0101000111 0101111001 1101000101 1001010001 0101010010 1111111101 0101011101 1100110011 11110010101 1100010101 0101110001 10001010101 1111011110 01010010001 1101010011 1100010101 1111110101 10011101100 0111010111 0100010101 011101001 1101011101 0101000100 110010001 1101010001 11010101001 0100100101 0101010111 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 146
Repeated words/phrases
and, or, her, of
Anaphora
how, the, and
