This is an analysis of Song—will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary? by Robert Burns.
WILL ye go to the Indies, my Mary,
And leave auld Scotia's shore?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc adXd AeAe acXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0110010110 111101 0110010110 0110101 111011010 1010101 11011010 110101 11110100110 1111010001 111010011 110111 11111110 11111011 11111110 0111101 111011110 010001001 110011111 010101011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
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