This is an analysis of Sweet Tibbie Dunbar by Robert Burns.

O wilt thou go wi' me, sweet Tibbie Dunbar?
O wilt thou go wi' me, sweet Tibbie Dunbar?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AAaa XXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 11111111010 11111111010 111101101001 11111111010 11111011010 11111111110 11111111011 1101111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

o, tibbie, thou, wilt, dunbar, sweet, thy, and, sae

Anaphora

o, i

Epiphora

dunbar