This is an analysis of Song—my Native Land Sae Far Awa by Robert Burns.
O SAD and heavy, should I part,
But for her sake, sae far awa;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaX aXaX aXaX aXaX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110111 11011110 01011111 11011110 11011101 11011110 11011111 10111110 11010110 11101110 11111101 11101110 11011101 11111110 11010101 11011110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
