523. Song—The Cooper o' Cuddy by Robert Burns: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem 523. Song—The Cooper o' Cuddy that begins with:

Chorus—We'll hide the Cooper behint the door,
Behint the door, behint the door,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaab XXXbC dXXbC XdddbC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110101001 10011001 110101001 110110011 0101101110 110111011 1110011001 1100101001 110101 11011100 11101111 10101111011 11111111 110101 1100110110011 1110011001 110111001 11111111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; behint, door, he are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines door is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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