Analysis of Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear
Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)
Ah, woe is me, my mother dear!
A man of strife ye've born me:
For sair contention I maun bear;
They hate, revile, and scorn me.
I ne'er could lend on bill or band,
That five per cent. might blest me;
And borrowing, on the tither hand,
The deil a ane wad trust me.
Yet I, a coin-denied wight,
By Fortune quite discarded;
Ye see how I am, day and night,
By lad and lass blackguarded!
Scheme | XAXA BABA CXCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111101 01111111 11010111 1101011 11111111 1111111 01001011 0101111 1101011 1101010 11111101 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 378 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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