This is an analysis of For A' That by Robert Burns.
Is there for honest poverty
That hangs his head, an' a' that?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabaAaXa cacaAaXa dadaAada aaaaAaea baeaAaXa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 01110100 1101111 01011111 1101111 111111 1101111 01010101 0101111 111100111 1101111 11111111 0101111 111111 1101111 010111011 0111111 1111101 1111111 11010101 1101111 111111 0101111 01110101 1111111 01110101 0111111 111011001 1111011 111111 1100111 01111111 1101111 11111101 1100111 111110101 1101111 111111 0101111 11010110 1100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
that, a', an', for
Anaphora
the, a
Epiphora
that
Anadiplosis
that