This is an analysis of My Ain Bonnie Lass O' The Glen. by Isabella Valancy Crawford.

Ae blink o' the bonnie new mune,
Ay tinted as sune as she's seen,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabaXa XcXcdXXX XXXXeXed XXXXXXXa XadaXaba
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 11101011 11011111 11101101 11001101 11101011 11001001 111101011 01101101 11001101 11011101 1101110 11011001 111101011 11011101 11010101 11110101 11011111 0100111 101011101 11101011 11011011 101001101 11011001 11011001 0111110 11011111 11101110 1111110 11111001 101101011 10111101 1110101 11101010 1111101 11001101 111101101 11011101 1111011 11001011 11100111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

o', her, my

Anaphora

my, an'