This is an analysis of Lines On The Fall Of Fyers by Robert Burns.

AMONG the heathy hills and ragged woods
The roaring Fyers pours his mossy floods;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbaXXXaa
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 0101011101 010110101 1111010101 1101010110 1101010101 1110010101 11010100101 1101010101 1111011101 0101010101 11010100101 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

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