This is an analysis of My Peggy Is A Young Thing by Allan Ramsay.
My Peggy is a young thing,
Just enter'd in her teens,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AXbbAXcX DeffDXXX DXeeDXcX XbXcXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1100011 110001 11011111 11011111 1100011 101101 11110101 010001 1101110 101101 11110111 11110111 1101110 010101 11111101 110001 1101110 1001101 11111101 11110101 1101110 011111 110101101 110001 1101110 111111 11010010 11011111 1101110 100111 01000101 110001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
as, i
Anaphora
fair, i, that, by
