This is an analysis of Meg Merrilies by John Keats.

OLD Meg she was a gipsy;
And liv'd upon the moors:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa abab aaXa ccdc XXXX caXa ccdcdX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
  • Metre: 1111010 110101 01010111 1011101 01001110 010111 011100111 010111 01000101 010101 01001100 111101 110111001 1101001 11010111 110101 110010101 110100 110010111 111111 10010111 1101110 11000100 1101010 111111001 111101 11110111 011111 1101111 111110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

her, she, and

Anaphora

her, no