This is an analysis of To Mr. M'Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan by Robert Burns.
SIR, o'er a gill I gat your card,
I trow it made me proud;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXa XbXb Xbcb dedf cfcf XXXX Xaeae
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 110011111 110111 111101010 111111 11110111 0101010 11111001 01011010 11011110 0111010 01111111 0101010 11011001 1101010 11111111 1101011 11110111 1101011 01110101 1101111 101110101 1101010 1111101 0111010 11111001 0100110 11111111 0100010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
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