This is an analysis of Fickle Fortune: A Fragment by Robert Burns.

THOUGH fickle Fortune has deceived me,
She pormis'd fair and perform'd but ill;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab bcXc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 110101011 1100110111 010111011 1110110111 11010111010 100111101 1101011110 111010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

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