Analysis of Verses to Clarinda

Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)



Fair Empress of the poet's soul,
And Queen of poetesses;
Clarinda, take this little boon,
This humble pair of glasses:

And fill them up with generous juice,
As generous as your mind;
And pledge them to the generous toast,
"The whole of human kind!"

"To those nwho love us!" second fill;
But not to those whom we love;
Lest we love those who love not us -
A third - "To thee and me, love!"


Scheme XAXA ABXB XCAC
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 0111 01011101 1101110 011111001 1100111 011101001 011101 11111101 1111111 11111111 0111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 398
Words 80
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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