This is an analysis of Elegy On Willie Nicol's Mare by Robert Burns.
PEG NICHOLSON was a good bay mare,
As ever trod on airn;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXb AbXb AcXc AXXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110010011 110111 11110101 110111 110010011 111111 11110101 1101001 110010011 111101 11110101 110101 110010011 1011101 11011111 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
