Burns wrote in iambus and regular metres, his poetry divided into stanzas, the rhyme scheme is repeated in each stanza,,, gives the stanza shape.
Stanza types
Standard Habbie, used for conversationalstyle poetry, or humorous comment
The first three lines and fifth line are tetrameter; the two short lines, lines 4 and 6, are diameter
Spenserian stanza (Example The Cotters Saturday Night)
This stanza form was associated with an archaic and magnificent style of language , lofty thoughtss and aspiring sentiments. It has 8 lines of iambic pentameter and one finaliambic hexameters, rhyming ababbcbcc
Tam O Shanter is a four beat meter closest to ballad meter
These notes are from 'Robert Burns Selected Poems' edited by Kenneth Brown CUP 1998
Burns really was beloved across the world! There are at least 60 memorials across the globe, and these are just the ones that are known about on Wiki!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Robert_Burns_memorials#:~:text=This%20is%20a%20list%20of,Victoria%2C%20Australia%20(1830).
Interesting. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for sharing Yvonne! This was an informative post for my morning reading! We’re all on the Burnside bandwagon at the moment it would appear! I have been reading his work ever since Burns night!