This is an analysis of Song—behold The Hour, Etc. (Second Version) by Robert Burns.
BEHOLD the hour, the boat arrive;
Thou goest, the darling of my heart;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcccXdedeeeeX
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 010100101 11010011 10011101 11111111 11010101 11010101 1001110111 110101010 01010101 11011111 01010101 11011101 100110010011 101110110 11111101 111111110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
