This is an analysis of Impromptu On Dumourier's Desertion Of The French Republican Army by Robert Burns.
YOU'RE welcome to Despots, Dumourier;
You're welcome to Despots, Dumourier:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX XXaaX XXbbX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 110010100 110010100 11101 111011 101110101100 101101100 101101100 101101 1011101 1111101100 111101100 111101100 111101 110101 1101111100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
with, you, dumourier, then, let, us, fight, about
Anaphora
you're, i, then
Epiphora
dumourier, you
