Analysis of bonie Doon

Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)



Ye flowery banks o' bonie 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 fause luve was true.
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie 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 bonie Doon
   To see the woodbine twine,
And ilka bird sang o' its luve,
   And sae did I o' mine.

Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
   Frae aff its thorny tree;
And my fause luver staw my rose
   But left the thorn wi' me.


Scheme abxb CxxxCdxd aaxa efef
Poetic Form Etheree  (35%)
Metre 11001111 111111 11111101 011111 1111111 110101 11110101 111111 1111111 110111 11110111 011111 1111111 11011 01011111 011111 1111101 111101 0111111 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 620
Words 128
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 8, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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