This is an analysis of Birks Of Aberfeldie, The by Robert Burns.
Now simmer blinks on flow'ry braes,
And o'er the crystal streamlet plays,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaXBbBX cccXB XXXXB aaaXB dddXB
- Stanza lengths: 8,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 11011101 110010101 11110101 0010100 1010011 011011 1010011 0010100 01010101 110110101 11011101 0010100 1010011 01011101 01011101 101110101 010100 1010011 010111110 11001011 110111010 010100 1010011 11011101 11110111 010011111 0010100 1010011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
ye, go
Anaphora
the
Epiphora
go
