Analysis of O were my Love yon Lilac fair
Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)
O WERE my Love yon lilac fair,
Wi' purple blossoms to the spring,
And I a bird to shelter there,
When wearied on my little wing;
How I wad mourn when it was torn
By autumn wild and winter rude!
But I wad sing on wanton wing
When youthfu' May its bloom renew'd.
O gin my Love were yon red rose
That grows upon the castle wa',
And I mysel a drap o' dew,
Into her bonnie breast to fa';
O there, beyond expression blest,
I'd feast on beauty a' the night;
Seal'd on her silk-saft faulds to rest,
Till fley'd awa' by Phoebus' light.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111 11010101 01011101 11011101 11111111 11010101 11111101 1111101 11110111 11010101 0110111 01010111 11010101 11110001 11011111 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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