Analysis of A Fiddler In The North

Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)



Amang the trees, where humming bees,
At buds and flowers were hinging, O,
Auld Caledon drew out her drone,
And to her pipe was singing, O:
'Twas Pibroch, Sang, Strathspeys, and Reels,
She dirl'd them aff fu' clearly, O:
When there cam' a yell o' foreign squeels,
That dang her tapsalteerie, O.

Their capon craws an' queer "ha, ha's,"
They made our lugs grow eerie, O;
The hungry bike did scrape and fyke,
Till we were wae and weary, O:
But a royal ghaist, wha ance was cas'd,
A prisoner, aughteen year awa',
He fir'd a Fiddler in the North,
That dang them tapsalteerie, O.


Scheme ABXBXBAB ABXBXXXB
Poetic Form
Metre 1011101 11010011 111101 01011101 111101 11111101 111011101 11011 1111111 111011101 01011101 11010101 101011111 0100111 1100100001 11111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 580
Words 108
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 213
Words per stanza (avg) 53
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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