This is an analysis of Song—it Was A' For Our Rightfu' King by Robert Burns.
IT was a' for our rightfu' King
We left fair Scotland's strand;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacb XdXcd XcXcc XdXcd XeXce
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 01111101 111101 01111101 110110111 1101101 11011111 110101 111101100 11110111 111101 11111101 010101 11010101 001110111 1011101 01010101 010101 11110111 10010111 100101 11011101 111101 11111110 01111111 011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
we, for, the, never
