This is an analysis of A Grace After Dinner by Robert Burns.

O THOU, in whom we live and move—
Who made the sea and shore;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abababaX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11011111 110111 11010011 110101 100111001 111011 01110111 110101101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

and, we

Anaphora

and