This is an analysis of On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations by Robert Burns.
HEAR, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXabab bbbXbX XccbXb Xddede fffbfb XaXfXf dddaXa XXXXXX ggghgh eeegeX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 11111101 11000101 01010111 11110 01101101 11110 00111101 01011101 11011101 1111 11111101 1111 111101010 110101010 010111110 1101 1111111100 1111 111111110 110111010 111101110 10110 111010010 11110 01110101 11110111 1111011 11110 11010001 11110 110111110 101111010 110101010 0101 110111110 0101 01011011010 1100101110 11010010 1101 011101010 1111 1111111 01010100 01110101 11110 01010100 1111 11111001 11011111 11111111 11011 11111101 11111 11011111 11010111 10111101 11101 11010101 1110110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 69
Repeated words/phrases
and, him
Anaphora
and, the
