This is an analysis of The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad by Robert Burns.
THERE was five Carlins in the South,
They fell upon a scheme,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abCX XdXd XXXX efef Xcfc CgfG fGhX iXCf Xgig XjCh jfif hehX Xfaf XcaX eXic dciX ebXb XciX XXiX XicX Xkgk gbcX fecX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110001 110101 01010101 010101 11010101 111101 11011101 101101 111010111 011110 110010101 010111 11010101 111101 11011101 010111 111111011 110111 11010011 01101 01010101 110101 1100111001 010111 1100111001 010111 11111101 110111 01110101 1001011 11110101 111101 11111101 110111 11010101 110111 011001011 111101 11110101 011101 11110101 110101 11111101 111001 11011101 111101 11110001 111110 11111111 111111 11110101 110101 10110011011 110101 11110101 0101011 11111101 10101110 11110101 111101 101111101 111111 11110101 11111100 1111101 010111 1110011100 111111 11011111 111001 101011101 1111010 11011101 111101 011001101 010101 1010011101 010101 101011101 1101010 111100101 110101 01011101 011111 1001111111 111110 11010101 11111100 11010111 110111 11011101 111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 23
- Lines: 114
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, ane, wad, her
Anaphora
to, and, her
