This is an analysis of On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child by Robert Burns.
SWEET flow'ret, pledge o' meikle love,
And ward o' mony a prayer,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bXXX eXeX efef dgdg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11011101 1111001 11111111 110111 010101001 111101 11010101 111101 11110101 110101 01110101 010111 11011111 1111001 01110101 110101 11110101 100101 11011001 1000101 10111101 011101 101100101 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
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