This is an analysis of Sketch In Verse, Inscribed To The Right Hon. C. J. Fox by Robert Burns.
HOW wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite,
How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc dd eeffaaggeecc XXhhhhgg iijjbbhhkk Xggggaacchhhh
- Stanza lengths: 6,2,12,8,10,13,
- Metre: 11011011111 11011111111 1101010010010 011111011010 110110010110 111111010110 111010111110 111101110110 11011001011 1111100011101 01011101011 110010010111 01011011011 110010010111 010110010010 110111010010 011101111011 111001001101 0011010001010 1011010110010 1011010111010 11111010111010 111011011111 1011010010011 110010110010 110110011111 11001100010 110010011010 11111001001 11101011001 111011011001 111101001111 11001101001 001011001011 111011001011 11011001001 111110110010 010011011010 11001011001 11101111001 011110111110 010010111010 1110010011110 110111110110 010110110110 110111011010 110010011010 110111111110 111110111010 001111010111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 55
Repeated words/phrases
and, how, i, with, so, his, of, your
Anaphora
how, i
Epiphora
him, 'em
