This is an analysis of Song—had I A Cave by Robert Burns.
HAD I a cave on some wild distant shore,
Where the winds howl to the wave's dashing roar:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXa aaXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,
- Metre: 1101111101 10110010101 111111 111101 111111 1011 1001001101 1111011011 011101 1101100 101101 1101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
thy
Anaphora
there
