This is an analysis of My Highland Lassie, O by Robert Burns.
Nae gentle dames, tho' e'er sae fair,
Shall ever be my muse's care;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbXB ccbbC ddbbC eebbC aabbC ffbbbbbB
- Stanza lengths: 8,5,5,5,5,8,
- Metre: 110111011 11001101 11011101 11110101 01011101 10011101 11111100 01110101 10111101 11011101 0110111 11110101 0101 11010111 11110101 11110101 11110101 0101 10110111 11010101 101010101 11010101 0101 10110101 10110101 110011101 01110101 0101 11111111 11011101 101011111 01110101 11011101 11011101 01011111 01110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
o, yon, my
Anaphora
for, farewell, to
Epiphora
o
