This is an analysis of Song—my Nanie's Awa by Robert Burns.

NOW in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays,
And listens the lambkins that bleat o'er her braes;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaXX aaXX bbXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10011011001 110010111001 11101001011 101010011010 01011111101 11001001101 11111011011 1111111010 110101101001 01001101101 11101011011 11011011010 11011001011 11111011001 01101011101 01101111010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 19

Anaphora

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