This is an analysis of Song—lady Onlie, Honest Luckie by Robert Burns.

A' THE lads o' Thorniebank,
When they gae to the shore o' Bucky,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa aaXa XaXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,
  • Metre: 1011100 111001110 1101101 11011010 101011010 11111110 11011011 011101110 01110111 11100110 11010101 11011010 1011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 15