This is an analysis of Epitaph On John Rankine by Robert Burns.
AE day, as Death, that gruesome carl,
Was driving to the tither warl'…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccXXddbXeeXX
- Stanza lengths: 18,
- Metre: 11111101 11000101 011101 110011001 110101010 1101001110 011101110 011100010 010101010 110101010 10111101100 110101010 01111101 0101101010 11000111 11111110101 110111110 110101001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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Epiphora
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