This is an analysis of The Rights Of Women—spoken By Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns.
WHILE Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb bbccdd bbddaacc eeaa ccbbffaaaa Xaabb
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,8,4,10,5,
- Metre: 1101011101 01010010101 1101110101 1101010101 01010111110 01010101010 10010101010 11010100010 01010110101 1011010101 1101010101 01110110101 11011101010 01111000010 11011011011 11011101010 1101011101 0111111101 11011111010 11010101010 1111110111 1111111111 11011111010 11010101110 11011111110 110100111010 110010101010 11011111010 0111011111 1111010101 1101110101 1111110101 1101010101 1011110101 11011101010 01010011010 11001101010 101110100010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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