This is an analysis of The Laddie's Dear Sel' by Robert Burns.
THERE'S a youth in this city, it were a great pity
That he from our lassies should wander awa';…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1010010000110 11011011010 1111111010 101101001011 01001101011 01001101101 01111101101 101101011011 110110010010 110110011011 110010111110 01001011001 111010111011 1101111101 1110010110010 101011111001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
his, weel, that
Anaphora
his
