This is an analysis of Lines On The Author's Death by Robert Burns.
HE who of Rankine sang, lies stiff and dead,
And a green grassy hillock hides his head;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa
- Stanza lengths: 3,
- Metre: 1101111111 1011010101 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 3