This is an analysis of The Slave’s Lament by Robert Burns.
It was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthrall
For the lands of Virginia-ginia O;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabAc XaaAcXbabac
- Stanza lengths: 5,11,
- Metre: 01011011110110 1010010101 1011011110101 1011110101 101 1111010110111 1010010101 11110111101101 1011110101 111 0101111010111 0010010101 11111110010101 1011110101 1111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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