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
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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