This is an analysis of Song—beware O' Bonie Ann by Robert Burns.

YE gallants bright, I rede you right,
Beware o' bonie Ann;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aBXXabab XbcbcbXB
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 11011111 01111 01011111 111010 01111111 011101 11010101 110111 11110101 110101 011111001 11111 01011101 1110001 11011111 01111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

her, sae, and

Anaphora

her