Song—montgomerie's Peggy by Robert Burns: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Song—montgomerie's Peggy that begins with:

ALTHO' my bed were in yon muir,
Amang the heather, in my plaidie;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab cbcb Xabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110011 10010011 11010110 1111100010 110011101 110101110 11111011 1101100010 01010111 111101010 11111101 0100100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; my, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'd is repeated.

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

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