This is an analysis of Song—i Hae Been At Crookieden by Robert Burns.

I HAE been at Crookieden,
My bonie laddie, Highland laddie,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaX XXXXbXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 1101100 111101 1010101 111101 1111111 111101 1111111 111101 1010011 111101 1010101 111101 01010101 111101 11011111 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

laddie