This is an analysis of Song—crowdie Ever Mair by Robert Burns.
O THAT I had ne'er been married,
I wad never had nae care,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXX Xbab bXaXb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,
- Metre: 11111010 1110111 1110111 1111000100 101111 111001 111101 1111101 10111011 1010101 1110101 11010111 111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
crowdie
