This is an analysis of On Elphinstone's Translation Of Martial's Epigrams by Robert Burns.

O THOU whom Poetry abhors,
Whom Prose has turnèd out of doors,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11110001 1111101 111101110 1100101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4