This is an analysis of Song—farewell To The Highlands by Robert Burns.
FAREWELL to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ddeeX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,
- Metre: 11001011001 01101001001 01011001011 01001011011 1011001011011 11001001001 10011110001 11001001011 11001011001 11001111001 11001011101 11001011101 1100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
i, of, my
Anaphora
farewell
