This is an analysis of Commemoration Of Rodney's Victory by Robert Burns.
INSTEAD of a Song, boy's, I'll give you a Toast;
Here's to the memory of those on the twelfth that we lost!—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbee
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 01001111101 10010001101111 111011111111 11100110111 01001011101 10101111111 110110111010 111010111010 11001011001 0100111001 1110100101010 1010010110110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
we, that, and, be
