This is an analysis of The Dean Of Faculty: A New Ballad by Robert Burns.
DIRE was the hate at old Harlaw,
That Scot to Scot did carry;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcXc dedebfbf gagaaghg bibibXbX hXaajjjj
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 101011110 1101010 110010101 1101010 11011111 10101011 1111110101 110010011 01110111 0101110 11011101 01001010 110101001 1101010 111101101 101010010 11011001 0101010 11000101 11001010 111000100 1101010 111110111 01101110 111101101 00101010 11010101 1101010 110110101 11100111 111110101 1101010 01100111111 11001110 1011010100 10101010 0110100101 01100010 010010011 0110110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
your
Anaphora
the
