This is an analysis of My Girl She's Airy: A Fragment by Robert Burns.

MY girl she's airy, she's buxom and gay;
Her breath is as sweet as the blossoms in May;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabaab
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 1111011011 01011101001 0100101001 111010010011 11011011011 11011011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6

Repeated words/phrases

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