This is an analysis of The Wounded Hare by Robert Burns.

Inhuman man! curse on thy barb'rous art,
And blasted by thy murder-aiming eye;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc acca aeea
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0101111101 1101110101 1101011001 1101011101 11110000111 0101001101 11010011101 0111111111 1101110101 1101110101 010010101011 0110110101 1111011101 0101110101 11110100101 110101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

thy, of

Anaphora

the