This is an analysis of To Robert Burns by James Whitcomb Riley.
Sweet Singer that I loe the maist
O' ony, sin' wi' eager haste…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaabXb cccdcd dddede XfXafX gggegh iiXjij bbbfXX fXfcfc eehdeX kkkXkX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 11011101 11011101 110111001 1101 1111011 0101 1111111 11011101 11110111 1101 11010101 1001 111100111 11011101 01010111 1101 110111001 1101 01011101 11011001 11111110 1111 01010111 1100 11110101 110101001 11110101 1101 11110111 0100 11010101 11011101 11010111 1101 01010111 1101 11010111 111100001 01010101 1111 11011100 1111 11111111 11111101 01011101 1101 01111101 1111 11011101 11010111 11110100 1101 11011111 1111 11001011 01111101 11010111 1110 01110111 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
to, thy
