This is an analysis of Song—gudewife, Count The Lawin by Robert Burns.
GANE is the day, and mirk's the night,
But we'll ne'er stray for faut o' light;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXXX bXccD XXaaD
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,5,
- Metre: 10011101 11111111 11110111 11110101 1011001010 010010 11001010 11011 11111100 11011111 11110101 11011101 11001 1100101 11011111 11000101 111011111 11001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
and, lawin
Epiphora
lawin
