This is an analysis of A Vision by Robert Burns.
AS I stood by yon roofless tower,
Where the wa'flower scents the dewy air,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXXX efXf gdgd XdfX hbhb Xdgdg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 111111010 1010010101 10101001010 11011101 01010111 01111001 01110101 1010100101 011001001 11010101 10010101 11010111 01111101 01110101 01011111 11010111 11011111 11011101 01110101 01110100 11011011 01011101 110101011 0101010000 11011101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11110111 110100011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 39
Anaphora
where, the, he
