This is an analysis of My Eppie Macnab by Robert Burns.
O saw ye my dearie, my Eppie Macnab?
O saw ye my dearie, my Eppie Macnab?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AAXa AAXa AAXa AAXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111111101 111111101 1100111001 1101100111 1111011101 1111011101 100111001001 1100101111 111111101 111111101 11101111101 11101010111 1111111101 1111111101 11101111111 1100111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
my, thy, to, she, thee, as
Anaphora
o, what
Epiphora
macnab