Analysis of Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)
Ye flowery banks o' bonnie Doon,
How can ye blume sae fair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae fu' o' care?
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird,
That sings upon the bough;
Thou minds me o' the happy days,
When my false love was true.
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird,
That sings beside thy mate;
For sae I sat, and sae I sang,
And wist na o' my fate.
Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon
To see the wood-bine twine,
And ilka bird sang o' its luve,
And sae did I o' mine.
Wi' lightsome heart I pulled a rose
Frae aff its thorny tree;
And my false luver stole my rose
But left the thorn wi' me.
Scheme | ABXB CXXX CDXD AAXA EFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011101 111111 11111101 011111 1111111 110101 11110101 111111 11111101 110111 11110111 011111 11111101 110111 01011111 011111 1111101 111101 0111111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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