This is an analysis of Song—the Dumfries Volunteers by Robert Burns.
DOES haughty Gaul invasion threat?
Then let the louns beware, Sir;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbXXdEdE XfXadfcfcf aXXXaaGAGA hihiXjXJXJ
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,10,
- Metre: 11010101 1101011 11010111 1101111 01110100 1101010 11010101 1101010 11010101 1101010 11111101 01000010 11101101 1101010 01010101 1001010 11011101 1101010 11011101 1101010 01010111 0101111 110101001 1101011 11010101 1111010 11010101 1100010 11010101 1100010 01110101 10101110 111011001 1101010 1011101010 1111010 1111101010 1101010 1111101010 1101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
british
