This is an analysis of Song—to Daunton Me by Robert Burns.
THE BLUDE-RED rose at Yule may blaw,
The simmer lilies bloom in snaw,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaaa bbaAA XXXaA XXaAA ccXaA
- Stanza lengths: 6,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 01111111 01010101 01110101 1111110101 0101010101 111110101 01011111 10111101 100111101 1111110101 01011 11011101 11011101 1101111 111110101 01011 011111110 011111110 11111111 1111110101 01011 11011111 1010110111 10111101101 111110101 01011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
me, daunton, to, his, a', for, and
Anaphora
the, for, his
Epiphora
me

