This is an analysis of Song—talk Of Him That's Far Awa by Robert Burns.
MUSING on the roaring ocean,
Which divides my love and me;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX efef bdbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101010 1011111 100101010 10110010 11110010 1010101 100101110 1011110 11101010 1110101 10101010 1010101 10111011 1010101 10101011 1011110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
Anaphora
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