Song—mary Morison by Robert Burns: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Song—mary Morison that begins with:

O MARY, at thy window be,
It is the wish'd, the trysted hour!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabXcbc dXdXXcXX XaXaXcac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100 000101010 11110111 11010101 110011101 01011101 11010101 01010100 101001001 01110101 01110101 11110111 10111111 11010101 11110101 111101000 11011101 11111101 11111100 11010101 01111111 11010011 0110100 01110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • 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; and is repeated.

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

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