This is an analysis of Highland Mary by Robert Burns.
Ye banks, and braes, and streams around
The castle o' Montgomery,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcXcbXb XdadcXXb efXfgbXb ebebgbXb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11111101 0101010 101111110 110101 11011001 1101010 111101100 1111010 11010111 1101010 11011101 1100110 010101101 1101111 11011111 1111010 110011101 1101110 11010101 1110010 11110101 11110110 11011101 1111010 11111101 1111110 111101001 1111110 110010101 11110110 11011101 1111010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
your, and, there
Anaphora
how