This is an analysis of The Song Of Death by Robert Burns.

FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies,
Now gay with the broad setting sun;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefadad
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 11111111111 11001101 11111011101 11001001 11101011101 11001011 11001011011 11011001 11011011001 111001001 11011001001 11001001 001011011011 11111001 11001111101 11111001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

thou, our, in

Anaphora

go