This is an analysis of Song—composed In August by Robert Burns.
NOW westlin winds and slaught'ring guns
Bring Autumn's pleasant weather;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbdb aaXaXdXd Xbcbecec XfXfebcb XgdgXbeb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11011101 1101010 010011101 1001010 110111001 0101010 1011111111 0101110 01010101 0101010 01110101 0101010 110101010 0101010 010110001 0101010 11011101 0101010 11011110 1101010 10010101 1001010 01010101 0101010 11010101 1101010 01010101 1101110 11111101 1101010 01010101 1101010 11011101 10101110 11111101 1111110 11010101 1100010 11101101 1111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
the, some, not
