This is an analysis of A Bottle And Friend by Robert Burns.

There's nane that's blest of human kind,
But the cheerful and the gay, man,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abc ababXcbcb
  • Stanza lengths: 3,9,
  • Metre: 11110101 10101011 1111 101011101 1111111 11010111 10110111 11010111 1101111 01110001 1111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 11