This is an analysis of Epistle To John Maxwell, Esq., Of Terraughty by Robert Burns.
HEALTH to the Maxwell's veteran Chief!
Health, aye unsour'd by care or grief:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabXb bbbcbc dddXXX eXXfef Xffffff
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,7,
- Metre: 100111001 111001111 0101110101 0011 11110111 1111 0111010010 111111010 010111010 01010 1101110110 01010 0100101110 110110110 1100011010 110110 101101010 0101 111111110 11011101 1110111 0101 1101110010 1011 100111011 110111011 111111111 11111 011111011 11111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, ye
Anaphora
health
Epiphora
ye
