This is an analysis of Epistle On J. Lapraik by Robert Burns.
WHILE briers an' woodbines budding green,
An' paitricks scraichin loud at e'en,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXabXc XXXdXd ddXede XffXXX XXXXXa ffXbXb XXXgXg fffeXX ccXhch bbbXbX bbbXXb bbbgcg hhidhd jjjdjd XkXdkd Xffjfj jjjiji iiiXiX hhXdhd cccgcg bbbXbb ffXdfd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 111100101 110101110 1101101 0111 01001011 1101 1101011010 010111110 111101110 1111 111101010 1101 11111001 10010111 11110110 0111 010011101 1001 11110111 11010101 111000111 11010 11111111 0110 01110101 11011111 11111101 1110 11010111 0111 11100101 11011101 11111110 11010 11011100 11110 11111111 11111111 11010101 1111 01111101 0111 11111111 10111111 10010101 1111 11000101 1110 11110001 11010111 11010110 11010 100111111 11010 11011111 1110111001 11110111 01010 1111111 1101 11110111 11011111 01010111 11110 11011111 11010 011101010 011101010 110111110 1101 111101110 1111 111111010 110101010 111111110 1111 1111000010 1101 11011101 11000111 11101100 01110 11011011 01110 11011110 1111111 10110101 1101 11111111 0111 11010110 11111101 11111111 10111 11111101 11011 111111101 110101101 110011111 1111 101101111 1111 11011101 11010111 11110101 01100 11011101 11100 011111110 110111010 111111110 0111 111001010 0111 10110101 11110111 11110111 0101 11010111 1111 11110101 11010101 11110101 1010100 10111011 11110 100111010 111110010 11111111 11110 111101110 11110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 22
- Lines: 153
Repeated words/phrases
an', and, or, i, your, me, my, to
Anaphora
an', at, or
Epiphora
me