This is an analysis of Hark! The Mavis by Robert Burns.
CA' the yowes to the knowes,
Ca' them where the heather grows,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaX bXbX cccd aaad eeeX fffX XXXX X
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Metre: 10100010 1010101 101011 1101 1010101 1010110 1010111 1101 1111101 1010101 10011101 101110 10101010 11111110 100101010 101110 1110111 10111011 1011111 1101 1110111 1111101 1111101 1101 1101001 11100111 11111111 11011 10100010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
ca'
Anaphora
ca', while