This is an analysis of To A Louse by Robert Burns.
On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church
Ha! whare ye gaun' ye crowlin ferlie?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X XXabXb Xccaca XXdede ffffff fXXXXX gggXgX hXhihXXbbbibi
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 110110101011 111111101 110001110 110111110 1111 1111111100 1101 110101010 010111110 111111010 11010 111111110 11110 10110101 11111111 110101010 01110 111111010 11110 11111111 01010111 11111101 11110 01010101 1110 111111111 11111110 1111010010 11110 111101011 11110 11100101 11111101 1101111 1100 1111001 1111 11010111 11110110 1101111 01010 11110111 11010 111100111 011011011 011101011 11010 1101111101 11010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 49
Repeated words/phrases
ye, us
Epiphora
us