1. Analysis of Birches - Rhythm, Stress and Scansion

2. DELANY It Anticipates the climax of the description, besides ruining the scansion of the line

3. With similar lyrics and scansion ("And the Boddamers hung the Monkey, O") it is plausible that Ned Corvan heard and adapted the song while travelling the Scottish Lowlands with Blind Willie Purvis.

4. The scansion of the Limerick written by Edward Lear (1812 –1888) in quantitative meter is shown where the Amphibrach foot in the poem with trimeter (3) and dimeter (2) verses in a rhyme scheme aabbA is used