This is an analysis of Love In The Guise Of Friendship by Robert Burns.
Talk not of love, it gives me pain,
For love has been my foe;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gege
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010111 111011 11101101 111101 11011101 111101 11011101 110101 11011111 111101 11010101 111001 11011101 010011 11101101 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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