This is an analysis of The Ploughman's Life by Robert Burns.

As I was a-wand'ring ae morning in spring,
I heard a young ploughman sae sweetly to sing;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 111010110001 11011011001 11111011101 1111010001111 010001011101 11101101101 110101011011 111101001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

and, her, she'll

Anaphora

and