This is an analysis of Rigs O' Barley, The by Robert Burns.
It was upon a Lammas night,
When corn rigs are bonnie,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdbab ebeBXbfBD gbgBabaBD hXhfXbXBD
- Stanza lengths: 12,9,9,9,
- Metre: 01010101 111110 01011001 1101010 01111101 1101110 11010101 0111010 111101 111110 11011101 1001110 01110111 0111010 11011100 1001110 11011111 1101010 11011101 1001110 11 11001101 0111010 11011101 1001110 11011111 11110110 11111101 1001110 11 11011111 1101010 110101001 1101010 110101011 1111010 11011111 1001110 11
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
rigs, i, her, that
Anaphora
the, i
