This is an analysis of Song—montgomerie's Peggy by Robert Burns.

ALTHO' my bed were in yon muir,
Amang the heather, in my plaidie;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXab cbcb Xabab
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,
  • Metre: 10110011 10010011 11010110 1111100010 110011101 110101110 11111011 1101100010 01010111 111101010 11111101 0100100010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

my, and

Anaphora

i'd