This is an analysis of Song—the Banks O' Doon (First Version) by Robert Burns.
SWEET are the banks—the banks o' Doon,
The spreading flowers are fair,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabaBcdcBeXe XfXfDgdgDfff
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,
- Metre: 11010111 0101011 11010111 111111 1111111 110101 11110101 111111 1111111 110111 11111111 111111 11110111 010101 11011101 110111 11011101 010101 11110111 110111 11011101 010101 11110101 111111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 25
Anaphora
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