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,…

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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