This is an analysis of Song—i Hae A Wife O' My Ain by Robert Burns.
I HAE a wife of my ain,
I'll partake wi' naebody;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX aXaX bXbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1101011 1011100 111011 11100100 1101001 110100 111001 1111100 111001 1010100 110111 1111100 101011 1011100 100111 111100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
i'll, to
Anaphora
i'll
Anadiplosis
naebody
