This is an analysis of The Bonie Wee Thing by Robert Burns.
Wishfully I look and languish
In that bonie face o' thine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab XbXb cbcbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,
- Metre: 10011110 011111 11101110 1111011 10111111 1011111 11110110 1110011 11111110 0110101 00110110 1010111 10
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
wee, thing, and
