This is an analysis of Song—stay My Charmer by Robert Burns.
STAY my charmer, can you leave me?
Cruel, cruel to deceive me;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaBB XXXbb
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,
- Metre: 11101111 10100011 11111111 1010111 1010111 11111100 10111010 10101010 1111111 1111111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 11
Repeated words/phrases
you, me, cruel
Anaphora
cruel, by, do
Epiphora
me, go, so
