This is an analysis of On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston by Robert Burns.
LONE on the bleaky hills the straying flocks
Shun the fierce storms among the sheltering rocks;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddee eeffgg ccbbddbbddhhii Xbbiiccee
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,14,9,
- Metre: 1101010101 10110101001 10010010101 010011100101 0101010101 0101010101 1111110111 1101110101 0101110111 1011010111 1001011101 1101011101 1101110111 0111011101 10011000001 0101011101 1001000101 1101000101 11000100101 1101010101 1001010101 1111000101 1101010111 1101010101 11010010001 10010101001 1101010001 11001110101 1101000101 0111010111 110101110001 11110101001 1111110101 0101111101 1101110101 1101010011 1101110101 01011101001 0101110101 11010010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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