This is an analysis of Song—the Bonie Moor-Hen by Robert Burns.
THE HEATHER was blooming, the meadows were mawn,
Our lads gaed a-hunting ae day at the dawn,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa aaba ccbbD eeddX eeffD
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,5,5,
- Metre: 01011001101 11101011101 1011101011001 1110100111 1011101101011 11101101011 11101111101 1100110111 11001001101 01001011101 010100011001 111110011101 1111 110011111001 0110101101 11001111101 01001111111 111 11001011001 01011101111 11101011011 11111001101 1111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
his, he
Anaphora
her
Epiphora
men
