This is an analysis of Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet by Robert Burns.
Chorus—Mally's meek, Mally's sweet,
Mally's modest and discreet;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaba aaXaC aXaXC bdXdC
- Stanza lengths: 4,5,5,5,
- Metre: 10101101 1010101 101101 10100101 11110101 0100111001 11011101 11110101 1011 00111111 01110101 11111111 011100110 1011 01010101 11010111 10111101 11010111 1011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
mally's, her
Anaphora
mally's
