This is an analysis of Song—my Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns.
Chorus.—She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaab cccbD XXXbD
- Stanza lengths: 4,5,5,
- Metre: 101001011 1001011 10010011 011111 1101010 11010010 1111110 111101 100101 011111 011011 10110010 111101 100101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
wee, she, thing
Anaphora
she, i, the
Epiphora
thing, o't
