This is an analysis of Song—raging Fortune: A Fragment by Robert Burns.

O RAGING Fortune's withering blast
Has laid my leaf full low, O!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aBaB XbXb CBCB
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110101001 1111111 110101001 1111111 11111111 1101011 01110111 1111011 11010101 1111011 11010101 1111011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

o, my

Anaphora

my

Anadiplosis

o