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;…
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