Analysis of The Ploughman's Life
Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)
As I was a-wand'ring ae morning in spring,
I heard a young ploughman sae sweetly to sing;
And as he was singin', thir words he did say, -
There's nae life like the ploughman's in the month o' sweet May.
The lav'rock in the morning she'll rise frae her nest,
And mount i' the air wi' the dew on her breast,
And wi' the merry ploughman she'll whistle and sing,
And at night she'll return to her nest back again.
| Scheme | AABB CCAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11101111001 1101111011 0111111111 111101001111 01001011101 01101101101 01010111001 011101101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 410 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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