This is an analysis of Lines Inscribed Under Fergusson's Portrait by Robert Burns.
CURSE on ungrateful man, that can be pleased,
And yet can starve the author of the pleasure.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXab
- Stanza lengths: 7,
- Metre: 1101011101 11110100010 11110100010 11110100010 0111010101 1001100101 11110100010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 7
