This is an analysis of Song—out Over The Forth by Robert Burns.
OUT over the Forth, I look to the North;
But what is the north and its Highlands to me?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xbaba
- Stanza lengths: 4,5,
- Metre: 1100111001 11001101001 0110111011 01101101101 11100111101 11011111010 1100111111 0110101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
to, i
Anaphora
the