This is an analysis of A Prayer Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish by Robert Burns.
O THOU Great Being! what Thou art,
Surpasses me to know;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb dXXa aede cXdX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110111 010101 11111101 111101 11010111 110110 11111111 011101 11010111 010011 11110101 110101 10110100 011101 11110101 011110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
