The Captain's Lady by Robert Burns: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Captain's Lady that begins with:

Chorus.—O mount and go, mount and make you ready,
O mount and go, and be the Captain's lady.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bBbBC DDDDC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111111110 11111001010 10111101010 111011111010 10111101010 111011111010 11111 10101111110 00111101010 10101111110 00111101010 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, mount, in are repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    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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