This is an analysis of The Belles Of Mauchline by Robert Burns.

IN Mauchline there dwells six proper young belles,
The pride of the place and its neighbourhood a';…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 0101111011 01001101001 1101101011 010110101001 1100111001 11111111001 110110011110 11001011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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