This is an analysis of To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy by Robert Burns.
I HOLD it, sir, my bounden duty
To warn you how that Master Tootie,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbXcdcdeXbX ffgXXghihXeaXa XXdXbdXdXdXjij
- Stanza lengths: 14,14,14,
- Metre: 110111010 01111101 10011 110101101 11110101 111111 11110101 1111011 11011101 1101010 111111 110111 010110 110100 10111101 11011111 011101 11111011 11110101 111101 110011001 111111 11110001 111110 011101 1101011 111011 0101110 110101110 010111110 01011 01010101 11010101 010111 11110111 1101011 10010011 0111011 011111 111101 011111 010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
an', him, then, to, you
Anaphora
an', to
