Analysis of Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)
O wilt thou go wi' me, sweet Tibbie Dunbar?
O wilt thou go wi' me, sweet Tibbie Dunbar?
Wilt thou ride on a horse, or be drawn in a car,
Or walk by my side, O sweet Tibbie Dunbar?
I care na thy daddie, his lands and his money,
I care na thy kin, sae high and sae lordly;
But sae that thou'lt hae me for better for waur,
And come in thy coatie, sweet Tibbie Dunbar.
Scheme | AAaa xxaa |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11111111010 11111111010 111101111001 11111111010 11111110110 1111111011 11111111011 0101111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 371 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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