This is an analysis of My Love, She's But A Lassie Yet by Robert Burns.

My love, she's but a lassie yet,
My love, she's but a lassie yet!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AAXa BBXb AAXa XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11110101 11110101 11010111 11011101 11011101 11011101 11011111 111111101 110110111 110110111 11110110 11110101 1101101 1101101 0100101001 11111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

yet, i, her, o, o't

Anaphora

my, i, come, we're

Epiphora

yet, o, o't